The Trump administration has finally filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC over the spliced Panorama documentary footage. The apology did not work…
The lawsuit has been filed overnight in south Florida, where it argues Americans were likely to have seen the doctored footage of Trump’s 2021 speech:
“The Panorama Documentary’s publicity, coupled with significant increases in VPN usage in Florida since its debut, establishes the immense likelihood that citizens of Florida accessed the Documentary before the BBC had it removed”.
Seeing as the documentary came out a week before the 2024 presidential election Team Trump say it was “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the vote. Trump is seeking $5 billion for defamation and for breaching Florida’s deceptive and unfair trade practices act. The BBC has taken only one of those and has therefore halved the total damage claim to $5 billion for its headline…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”