Whether you believe Fox News intentionally created this opening, or whether it was just a disastrous mistake on behalf of a multi-billion corporation with a full suite of lawyers they chose not to use, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp created a problem in the Dominion settlement that is only going to get worse.
Once you expose yourself to the vulnerabilities of Lawfare, the leftists will pour through the opening like Central American aliens in Texas. Funded by allies in the cultural and political battle, former DHS Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz is now suing Fox News for defamation of her character and reputational harm.
NEW YORK – The head of the short-lived Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disinformation board has launched a defamation suit against Fox News, alleging the network published false reports about her that endangered her life.
Nina Jankowicz was tapped to lead DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board, and though the board never held a meeting, it was heavily criticized by the GOP and was regularly covered by Fox News.
The purpose of the board was to coordinate disinformation efforts at DHS across topics ranging from migration to addressing plots from Russia and Iran.
The Republican National Committee dubbed it the “Ministry of Truth” in a nod to George Orwell’s novel “1984” and couched disinformation as “any speech we don’t like.”
Fox News mentioned Jankowicz and her role leading the board more than 300 times in its resulting coverage, with hosts and commentators asserting she planned to censor speech with nicknames like “disinfo overlord,” “disinformation czaress,” and “minister of truth.”
[…] Jankowicz’s suit alleges the outlet appeared to personally target her given that the coverage extended well past her resignation.
“Fox’s defamatory coverage has caused Jankowicz and her family immense suffering. Jankowicz has been doxed, threatened, harassed relentlessly, and even cyberstalked,” the suit says.
“Fox enfolded these lies in ugly language that could have no other purpose than to denigrate Jankowicz’s character and professional reputation, particularly since they continued long after Jankowicz’s resignation from government.” (read more)
Personally, I believe the bigger picture behind all this we will find the successful DEI approach by activists toward all advertisers. Fox News had the #1 viewer rating, but struggled with advertisers due to the boycotts, activists and controversies that enmesh the political battle space. Essentially, demonetization by activism.
What we are witnessing at Fox News is what we might call a self-fulfilling prophecy; when the people in charge of the institution do not align with the content or product the institution is creating. The result is a corporate flippant and cavalier approach toward the collapse of the enterprise. The Lawfare operatives are moving in to clean the bones of the carcass.
How can Nina suffer reputational harm? It is the same with the Brabant.
Put her on the stand. She’d be her own worst witness.
She didn’t. Like all cockroaches, she suffered from sunlight.
People saw her and her esteemed position as a farce, and 100% UNConstitutional, and stood up for themselves, as they should do. It’s called democracy and self governance.
You see, this demoncrat is a propagandist, pure and simple, and she has been doing this job behind the scenes in Ukraine for a long time. Working against Americans on behalf of the UNIParty and the globalists.
All they did was move her to America, gave her a glorified title, and made it public. To their chagrin, the American people weren’t going for their devious little plan.
Ukraine is their all things fraud haven. Not just money laundering, but spying. We learned this in scampeachment #1.
They were doing a lot of illegal things there, and continued to do. All of the things that are happening there are directed by us. Clamping down on religion, speech, etc. All things they are doing to us here and around the globalist world.
I think part of the reason they used Ukraine in scampeachment #1 was to keep President Trump and team from going there, and meeting Mr. Z, their adult porn star puppet there. They obviously have a lot to hide.
I think this was the goal, all along.
After all, why announce publically and with fanfare, the creation of this official “Disinformatiin bureau” when WE all know they have had an unofficial and broadly encompassing one in operation for YEARS.
They KNEW what the responce would be, may have even done some of the “doxxing” and “cyberstaulking” activities themselves, …
then she wins this suit, and from that point on, ALL “news outlets” are prohibited from reporting on ANY public officials actions, AS a Public official, either by name OR job title, because it MIGHT cause that official to get some “blowback” from the Public?
So, TGP or even Sundance might be forced to report something like ;
SOME unnamed Govt officials recently changed regulations in some department which eviscerate the 2A, and allow for gun confiscation without probable cause or any other legal protections.”
And then only after the statement is vetted by their lawyers.
Like the letter from the School board association to the FBI”leaked” to the MSM, this whole thing stinks of a set up.
They will NOT stop, they will not change coarse, they will not back down, and so WE CAN’T EITHER.
Good job connecting dots no one saw. I strongly agree that the announcement of a Ministry of Truth did not need to be made for the reasons you state. Therefore, if true, then the announcement most certainly had a particular ulterior motive. The frightening thing is that these kinds of strategies smack of AI depth and sophistication, as if they can they can rub their lamp and a genie appears with detailed plans.
It wasn’t long ago that defamation suits were routinely dismissed as frivolous. Now it seems that if you are the wrong defendant no evidence is insufficient.
As the injuries against the American people pile up, it’s important to review, for a moment, an important historical lesson:
When a particular leader or leaders of a nation have overreacted against its enemies with heinous, ungodly cruelty that shocks the conscience, the salient point is that when a nation is subjected to extreme, existential threats, human DISCERNMENT IS LOST as groups and individuals act out of animalistic fear or anger.
That is history’s important lesson. When people are in fear of starvation, unfair imprisonment or death, no one is going to ask for permission to disembowel their enemies.
It’s war of the most insidious and devious means.
Not human.
We live within the belly of the beast.
Soros has billion$$$ to spend on his Committee of Evil – over 80 organizations – with thousand+ employees … who spend every day actively working to destroy America with their Agenda.
Makes sense. Lets see if it makes sense to other media. Knowing that naming names could get you sued, wouldn’t ALL media defend FOX if they had any common sense? If media can’t name names then yes the reporting becomes useless. Why would any media company put up with that?
On the other hand, the leftist media has gone full attack dog on conservatives, repeatedly. Will one of those people initiate a lawsuit with the exact same accusations except for the media company? Lets start with a supreme court justice suing all the leftist media for “the network published false reports that endangered their life. defamatory coverage has caused their family immense suffering. The justice has been doxed, threatened, harassed relentlessly, and even cyberstalked,”
Great points Dutchman.
Her reputation was harmed way more when people saw those awful singing videos she posted on the internet of herself.
As much as I now loathe Foxnews, they never slandered her. They simply reported about things she’s said, done and advocated for.
To her, FACTS are the disinformation.
Ding, ding, ding!! We have a winner!
Summed up nicely.
Exactly. And so, if she wins, in ANY reporting on what ANY public official is doing in the coarse of carrying out their duties, AS a public official, ANY media (even alt-media) will be legally constrained from including anything in their reporting which could identify the public official or officials involved.
She accomplishes the exact goal OF her “Disinfo Bureau” without all of the fuss of creating such a Bureau, by forcing all media outlets to censor themselves.
Clever, I’ll give them that,..
If they judge shop they’ll win too!
Lawfare doesn’t care if she was slandered or not. Will their threats to sue cause FOX to cave like they did with Dominion? It seems that is the issue.
I seriously doubt a dime was transferred from Fox to Dominion. It was just a show to take the heat off Dominion.
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
Is this the point where I can say WHO CARES.?
Mike in a Truck: Sorry, not there, yet. Mild concern is still required.
I’m betting she has an interview at Twitter fairly soon…..
It’s not Fox’s fault she’s a butthead…
If she gets a settlement or wins a judgement, Scary Poppins can always sing “Just a spoonful of sugar’ll make the medicine go down…” to the Murdoch’s –ease their pain a bit maybe.
“Welcome to my world, Nina”. Signed, your average conservative.
Could it be that our court system is part of a money laundering scheme?
Lawfare (aka, the Legal System) now wants in on the grift.
Can ‘we the people ‘ sue Fox for calling Arizona early while people were still in line voting? The did the same with Bush/Gorey for Florida. I am serious, can we the American citizens sue them for their intentional harm?
No,,,, some court will find we have “no standing”
Another grifter gets in line.
I thought Jankowicz was a Foreign agent. Is she registered? She should be sued for interfering with elections and thrown out of the country.
Fox should have never settled with dominion. Ever.
Of coarse not. Truth is an affirmative defence to Defamation.
Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell and perhaps others haven’t settled.
Others, like AmericanThinker avoided a lawsuit all together by agreeing to effectively censor themselves by not writing anything asserting anything about Dominion.
Unlike the others, Fox has the financial resources to fight the case and prevail.
They “folded” for the same reason they called Az. early on election night; because they are “in” on it.
Either Fox news reported, on the air, things about Dominion which they could not prove, or they didn’t.
Buried in all of this is the lawsuit by the producer who allegedly made claims of “harrassment” against T/C, remember her?
Turns out she sued Fox, for suborning perjury, in that they ordered her in depositions on the Dominion suit, to say “I don’t know” when in fact she DID know.
She has dropped that suit in one jurisdiction, but her lawyers SAY she intends to file in another.
This may be a manipulation, in order to extort $ from Fox, ..
Ownership of FOX Corp: Blackrock 9.37%, Vanguard 9.44%, State Street 3.85%, Total 22.66%
Remember how 20 of the 435 (4.6%) House members kept McCarthy out of the Speaker’s seat for a week?
Fox now riddled with whining wimps. Ball game over, they threw it away.
We all remember what a giant failure Paul RINO Ryan was as speaker of the house. Now he’s a giant failure sitting on the board at Faux news.
Have never watched a single moment of FOX News since that POS was hired. Not even Tucker or Guttfeld. That channel and its people are dead to me.
I get my news from internet news sources now.
Much like with how we obtain and preparevour food, WE, collectively got addicted to convenience.
A few generations ago, most people bought ingredients, in some cases even growing and harvesting them themselves, and then planned and prepared meals themselves.
Then WE got ‘used to’ pre-planned, pre-prepared meals in a box, and then fast food, to the point that most 20 year olds have no idea how to prepare any meal “from scratch”.
Similarly, WE got used to our news and entertainment, delivered rightvto our living rooms, via the “boob tube”, initially with a very limited menu; we had “the big 3 networks, of CBS, NBC,ABC, and 1 or 2 “local stations”.
Having developed those narrow “eating habits” for news/entertainment, even as the menu has broadened with cable, satelite and most relevently the I-net and these stupid smart phones, MOST people still gravitate to a few sources, both for news and entertainment.
But, finally many are beginning to recognise the lack of nutrition, taste and substance, and learning how to “cook from scratch”, and in large part its because OF the lack of nutrition (Truth) that a vast hunger for that nutrition (Truth) is fueling a move away from prepackaged crap.
They all saw how quickly Murdoch folded and they smell blood. This proves you can cave but they will never love you.
Mitchie never learned that. Now they own him (or are his preferred pronouns “she”?).
So if she has a successful case vs. Faux News, does this mean that every conservative leaning public person who’s been defamed and smeared by CNN, MSNBC et al can then file a defamation lawsuit as well?
Sadly, no. Defamation judgements for leftist thee, but slander and libel for conservative me.
Agree, SD. Murdoch’s sons are married to communists and it is parasitical now.
She is a highly controversial public figure working for the government. I’m not sure how she can sue for defamation. Her job is to defame citizens whose views she does not like.
This has nothing to do with Nina…It’s all about the Discovery phase…and what L-Fair can extract from that and crucify Fox.
Nina wrote a book explaining how maskless terrorists threatening democracy with conspiracy theories, was a gringo-supreemo(white supremacist) warmup to January, the sixth…
“The year 2020 was not just replete with disinformation about the election, or Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s work in Ukraine…
“The hack of the DNC, the amplification of disinformation, Trump’s rejection of the Mueller investigation… Republicans’ refusal to push back on Trump… Trump has willingly and repeatedly eschewed the truth and eroded American democratic discourse…”
“On more than one occasion, individuals… took to the streets and statehouses, maskless… They threatened first responders, poll workers, and journalists… draped in Confederate flags… flashing ‘white power’ signs… disinformation-driven events were a tragic prelude for what was to come on January 6.”
— Nina Jankowicz, How to Lose the Information War
Nina Jankowicz promoted Trump-Russia claims in 2020 book
foxnews.com/politics/jankowicz-book-promoted-trump-russia-claims-urged-government-intervention-disinformation
So now, the left will sue you when you tell the truth about them.
Taking the lawfare route against “disinformation”. If she wins, there will be legal precedent. No more memes about Biden* being senile, liberals being sheep ….
It would seem that’s their plan, Dominion was a test. For a solid court precedent they chose the most reviled person, and that lied for a living, they could. If her status, occupation, opinions and attitude don’t justify the actual facts, truth and opinions said about her, then pretty much any of her lying snake minions can lie at will and sue, w precedent, anyone who mentions it.
By these standards Candidate, Nominee, President-Elect, President Trump should file lawsuits against every media outlet in the country, with few exceptions.
I find it amusing/alarming that a person who intended to and has slandered people all day long and twice on Sunday for their protected FREE SPEECH has a hissy when those same people go after her.
Why is it that she has a process, a legal avenue to go after them for their speech, when they are simply shut down, shut up and cancelled, with no hearing or notice whatsoever?
Cuz that’s how commies roll. Commies all around us. Oh, and don’t forget comrade, according to KJP (and Mayorkas) the border is closed. Anything else is a lie. Oh, and KJP also wanted to ensure us that our eyes are lying- they truly are not handing out phones, putting them on buses, and distributing around the country. Don’t believe those videos…..just KJP and the MSM.
How do we hold them accountable for those lies?
Very simply…..with a rope.
Mayorkas, A certifiable, lying sack of human trash, trained in Cuba, put in place by anti-American imbeciles.
Anyone who quotes this jerk deserves a firing squad.
President Trump did file a lawsuit against CNN, seeking $475 million for defamation. I don’t know the status of the case.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/breaking-president-trump-announces-will-sue-cnn-repeated-defamatory-statements-defamed-defrauded-public-regarding-overwhelming-evidence-fraud-throughout/
President Trump also included ABC news in his lawsuit regarding the Russia Russia Russia scam by Clinton and the feds:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/24/president-trump-files-a-massive-civil-lawsuit-against-the-entire-russia-conspiracy-scheme-team/
I don’t know if there was any discovery or a trial, but I saw that a Florida judge threw out this lawsuit:
In a blistering filing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks accused Trump of a “pattern of abuse of the courts” for filing frivolous lawsuits for political purposes, which he said “undermines the rule of law” and “amounts to obstruction of justice.” “Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” he wrote. The judge ordered President Trump to pay $1 million to the defendants.
How’s that for justice?? We’re living in a perpetual state of 1984.
Forgot to add that Judge Middlebrooks was appointed by Bill Clinton and apparently didn’t take kindly to a lawsuit filed against Mrs. Clinton.
So, if Nina has a case solid enough where lawyers will sue Fox for defamation.
Then, we the people, have more than enough evidence that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, the NYT’s, and others have defamed every single conservative American.
A nice big class action agains all of them would be nice. Let them set the precedent…then let us clean the meat off the bones of propagandists.
She doesn’t need a solid case. She just needs a corrupt jury pool. There are plenty of those to go around – at least on their side.
Send her back to Junior High drama school. When she landed at DHS, I thought she was a terrible actor…
Acting and singing about as poor as Dylan Mulvaney’s, someone else who just crashed onto the scene from practically nowhere.
Fox lost advertisers because they lost their audience, and that started long before they canned TC.
No one wants to advertise with a company that lies to their viewers, repeatedly, denigrates their audience, thwarts and steals elections, caters to the leftist clowns, hires leftist clowns, and so much more.
You actually need viewership to get advertisers and they have been losing it for a long time.
It is like the UNIParty RS claiming President Trump if elected will cause Congress to go DIM. NO, Congress can, will and does do all that by themselves. By their ineffectiveness. Their endless campaign lies that they forget the moment they are elected/selected.
Pfizer LOVES to advertise with a company that “lies to their viewers repeatedly, denigrates their audience,…etc.”
“Our kind of people!”
Personally I am against Lawfare, particularly against people associated with Trump and Trump himself.
But in Fox’s case I hope she wins, disgraceful as she is. Fox deserves it for what they have done to Tucker.
NO! Thonk throufh the CONSEQUENCES of such a win.
Sundance could not have done ANY of his stories on RDS, because as a consequence OF his stories, SOME readers could have decided to “doxx” RDS, or ‘God forbid’ show up at his public events and protest.
NO WAY Sundance could have ‘published’ (on the I-net for ANYONE to read, and be ‘triggered’) his jewel of “Jacks Coffee shop” or many of the well researched exposes he has written over the years.
THINK it through, before you respond from emotions, there is no way we should wantvthis harlot to prevail against Fox.
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It’s all about the narrative, fact don’t matter at all with the Marxist left.
Former Disinformation Governance Czar sues for… disinformation.
Oh so it’s okay for Disinformation Governance Czar to decide what is information and disinformation, but if anyone else tries to decide what is information and disinformation they are to be destroyed by any legal or extralegal means possible.
Make no mistake: this suit is not about defamation, it is about the government setting the precedent that only the government may decide what is disinformation. This woman made no secret of her political beliefs. She was openly self-righteous in her zeal to end any and all misinformation or disinformation, and to be the one in power who got to decide which was which.
I no longer watch Fox News, but as a news organization they had a responsibility to speak the truth. In this situation they actually spoke the truth and are getting sued for it.
Then there’s Nina Jankowicz who was going to get paid to lie every day. How dare these people at Fox News tell the truth and think they can get away with it?
What she’s really angry about is she got canned because there was so much uproar in the entire country about her role as Disinformation Czar. So in her anger, she’s going to get revenge on people who simply tried to tell the truth about her position and her role in governance.
In a totalitarian state you cannot have news organizations that speak truth to power. You can’t have individuals who speak truth to power. You must get compliance and use your power to enforce complete and total compliance. This is all of the same piece with the J6 kangaroo court, all of Trump’s impeachments, all the legal and extralegal attempts to interfere with the election and defame and destroy him. Fox News was the enemy to everyone on the left, and they are determined to make an example of them to all the rest of the journalists in the country: look what will happen to you if you dare to criticize the government.
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LOL! That singing whacko fruitcake defamed herself.
“… Jankowicz has been doxed, threatened, harassed relentlessly, and even cyberstalked.”
So… justice DOES exist.
Jankowicz sexually assulted me in a Macys dressing room. I am goin to sue her.
I hope they both lose and that is actually a possibility. Fox could have to pay her and her reputation could still be tarnished even more, depending on what comes out at the trial. That would be hilarious.
Having had such success silencing a sitting president and myriad other reliable, independent, conservative voices, the woke jacobin jackals now move on the controlled opposition network still somehow popular with slumbering boomers. As with all their hyper-emotional decisions, however, the jackals have clearly not yet considered what might happen when they lose the ability to propagandize the large portion of conservatism that remains asleep.
Controlled Opposition Network = CON
Ha. She put her pathetic self on Twitter and tik tok. Not fox’s fault they were just pointing it out.
Well you really can’t blame her after the Dominion thing…It seems the Murdoch baby girls daddy will give it up for just about any frivolous lawsuit.
I think this is more Alex Jones + Ricky Vaughn.
Nina’s goal was to stifle free speech and free press.
If she wins this suit, she succeeds.
How will the Press be able to report the news, including the names of Government officials and the actions they are taking AS Government officials, if such reporting MIGHT cause members of the public to then “attack” said Govt. officials with,…exactly the tactics the left initiated such as doxxing, assembling at the targets home and engaging in disruptive threatening behavior, etc.
Were she to prevail in the lawsuit, she could accomplish her goal of muzzling free press, far more completely and efficiently than if she had actually been able to get her official “Disinformation Bureau”up and running.
In a sane World, every news organisatiin, the ACLU, and free press advocates would be lining up to join Fox in this suit to fight this move.
As it is, I expect Fox to intentionally lose this case, in order to create a legal precedent that effectively muzzles any Constitutional protection for “free press”.
Nina J. is like if Goebbels and Weird Al had a baby.
is being disbarred a gerund?
“Talking about the deep state is a thread among conspiracy communities here in the United States…”
–Nina Jankowicz May 2, 2022
“We had to wait for google to let us onto the play store… It’s very difficult for a conservative company to bring a defamation case against fake news…”
–Devin Nunes 5/4/23
Ed Henry, Kash Patel, Devin Nunes (12 min)
https://rumble.com/v2m2xqu-truth-social-continues-to-break-records-launch-new-features.html
There sure are a lot of these operatives working for the Government, thanks to the weaponization of the DC Swamp bureaucracies. Do we really have any idea what we are up against? Most of these people seem to have been in positions where they can do the most damage for most of their working lives. The whole Swamp is full of the stench of bad fish, here lately.
All we can do is vote for Trump and hope he will have learned a lot more about his surroundings and will have made the necessary adjustments by November of 2024. Other choices seem totally useless by comparison. MAGA is us and we have to act like it, or there is no tomorrow for our Country.
Totally agree with Sundance. FOX’s settlement with Dominion has opened them to other defamation lawsuits. What about defamation lawsuits against MSNBC and CNN regarding their coverage of President Trump?
Who is funding her?
The goal is obviously to create a high cost for reporting whatever the left doesn’t like. That was the purpose of her propaganda office, and this merely goes at it another way. Fox might to able to handle the legal defense cost, but others who lack resources will think twice before speaking their minds less they be bankrupted.
Given 1) that Nina Jankowitz self-destructed by creating and airing incontrovertably childish videos and pronouncements; and, 2) the now exposed nature of the government’s “disinformation” operations, Fox has quite a bit to work with. Nina has to establish that she had a positive reputation for Fox News to harm, before she even gets to proving whodunit, or that Fox woukd have no motive in exposing a blatantly unconstitutional censorship operation other than harming her personally. What an ego.
Is Sundance on Truth Social? Been looking for the LastRefuge there can’t find.
All Fox did was highlight texts she wrote for pubic consumption- These young people who grew up with social media do not understand that the internet is NOT their friend ( actually this goes for Biden too- every time he says he voted for segregation, or that he graduated in the top of his law School class at Syracuse- we can google it and learn that he voted AGAINST the segregation of public schools and graduated 75th out of 86 in his law class). But they are crybabies who, rather than learn from their own mistakes (which they never do) they litigate! Such touchy, entitled snowflakes…..
Can a shareholder revolt be far behind?
Well, since Fox jumped the shark it’s only fitting that the sharks would circled back & finish them off.
Looks like putting “A better way” Paul Ryan on the BoD is really paying off.
See ya!!
Show the video of her…..end of subject
Beats workin’.
This is what happens when the old warhorse loses his edge and the stupid, bumbling twirp offspring take charge!!! They drive the organization into the ground and I could care less because they are basically a bunch of FOREIGNERS, Australians, who have taken the American people for a damn ride while they made millions! Let Ruddy and Newsmax ascend to the throne, at least he is a AMERICAN!!! 🤔
Lindell TV/Frank Speech, Mike Lindell and his crew are Americans AND PATRIOTS!