CNN was found guilty on Friday by a Florida jury of defaming a Navy veteran who helped several individuals flee Afghanistan after the US departure in 2021.
On June 12, Zachary Young sued the network for $1 billion, claiming that a program by reporter Alex Marquardt on.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” in November 2021 depicted his evacuation efforts as abusing Afghans. Young received $1 million for mental.
Anguish and $4 million in damages for lost income from the jury. (RELATED: These Are Among The Most Startling Testimony From A $1 Billion CNN Defamation Case.)
According to Fox News, Judge William A. Henry said in October that Young “did not act illegally or criminally” while attempting to remove individuals from Afghanistan.
Young’s lawyers told a Bay County, Florida jury at the beginning of the trial on January 6 that the network did not “confirm any of the facts”