Cable network One America News lost an appeal of its defamation suit against MSNBC and its famed host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday after a panel upheld a previous federal court ruling against OAN that requires them to pay $250,000 of the defendants’ legal fees.
OAN, owned by Herring Networks Inc., sued Maddow for $10 million in July 2019 after she ran a segment stating that OAN employee Kristen Rouz worked for OAN, but was “also being paid by the Russian government to produce government-funded pro-Putin propaganda for a Russian government funded propaganda outfit called Sputnik.”
The appellate court held that Maddow’s statement was well within the bounds of what qualified as protected speech under the First Amendment.
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