John Stossel Sues Facebook Alleging Defamation Over Fact-Check Label, Seeks at Least $2 Million
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTV journalist John Stossel is demanding at least $2 million in damages from Facebook in a lawsuit he filed against the social media giant, alleging the company defamed him by appending fact-checking labels to two videos he posted about climate change.In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said, “We believe this case is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.”According to Stossel’s lawsuit, in the past year he posted on two short video reports on Facebook in which he “interviewed experts in the climate change arena.”In one video, “Government Fueled Fires,” about the 2020 wildfires in California, Facebook and its fact-checking partners “falsely attributed to Stossel a