Judge Throws Out Donald Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN Over “Big Lie”

A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN. The lawsuit revolved around CNN’s use of the phrase “the Big Lie” to describe Trump’s unfounded claims about the 2020 election. Trump argued that this created a false association between him and Adolf Hitler. However, the judge ruled that CNN’s use of the phrase was a matter of opinion, not fact. The judge also expressed sympathy for Trump’s concerns about the state of the news media, but stated that the statements in question were not actionable because they were opinions, not false statements of fact. This ruling highlights the challenges of defamation law in the age of social media, where news is often shared and disseminated without being thoroughly researched or verified.