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Forbes
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- Politics
- Forbes
This Is Why Gavin Newsom Is Suing Fox News For $787 Million And An Apology
MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 26: California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at East Los Angeles ... More College on February 26, 2025 (Photo by) Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he is suing Fox News for $787 million and an apology. This is why he is doing it. Newsom, the governor of California, declared 'no more lies' in a tweet on Friday when he announced he is suing Fox News. He later said, 'bring it on' in reference to the lawsuit while posting this image from the court filing showing himself (in his personal capacity) as the plaintiff and Fox News as the defendant. Gavin Newsom posted this image with words, "Bring it on." Background: Newsom, Trump and Fox News. The core of the case is that Newsom says Donald Trump lied about the date the two of them had a phone conversation. Then, according to Newsom, Fox news repeatedly accused him of lying in an effort to bolster Trump's version of events. Gavin Newsom says that things got so bad with Fox News accusing him of lying about the call that he started getting phone calls from friends asking him why he was lying about the Trump call. Newsom says that he never lied about the call. He accuses Trump of lying and is now suing Fox News for elevating this lie on its network and for defaming him in the process. This is Why Gavin Newsom filed suit against Fox News. Gavin Newsom conducted a round of interviews Friday where he detailed the events that led to him suing Fox News. Here are highlights from two such interviews. During an interview with Terry Moran, Newsom said that, 'you can't maliciously slander someone—you can't defame someone—by altering facts, editing facts, knowingly doing that without being held to some higher level of ethics and accountability.' Newsom referenced the Dominion lawsuit and opined that while Fox had settled the case, the company failed to fundamentally change its practices. More than two years ago, Fox News and Fox Corp. agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a groundbreaking defamation lawsuit. Dominion Voting Systems asserted that Fox had pushed lies and conspiracies and accused its company of rigging voting machines to hurt Trump during the 2020 election. The settlement was made after the jury had been selected and mere hours before the actual trial was set to begin. Gavin Newsom went on to tell Moran that he had been on the receiving end of Fox for 'years and years' and that he did not do this (file the lawsuit) lightly. During the interview, Newsom said, "I got a bunch of calls. Terry this is actually why this happened." He went on to share that he had received a bunch of calls from friends asking him, 'why did you lie about the Trump call?" This was when Newsom said it had become clear to him that lies against him were breaking through even beyond the Fox audience and causing real damage. Though he said he had known the network to lie, this time was different according to Newsom. This time Fox News had clearly 'crossed a red line.' During an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, Gavin Newsom shared that he is suing Fox News in his personal capacity and proceeded to detail his reason for taking legal action. Newsom tells Cohen the following, Newsom said the Fox News Chyron said 'Gavin lied...' Newsom said Fox News put up a chyron that said, 'Gavin lied about Trump—the call.' During his interview with Terry Moran, Newsom said, Newsom describes Fox as purporting to be a news organization with journalist when, in his opinion, it's a propaganda network instead. Ultimately, Gavin Newsom says that he filed the lawsuit against Fox News because two of its anchors (Jesse Watters and John Roberts) defamed him, and this defamation has caused him harm that compels him to defend himself. Governor Newsom Accuses Fox News of Defamation: What Does it Mean? PBS, a non-profit media enterprise in the United States, defines defamation as, 'any false information that harms the reputation of a person, business, or organization. Defamation includes both libel and slander. Libel generally refers to defamatory statements that are published or broadcast (more permanent) while slander refers to verbal defamatory statements (more fleeting).' The organization informs that defamation allegations can present legal challenges for media organizations. Reputation and Leadership Implications for Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom is pushing for the network to be held accountable for what he describes as unethical and unprofessional behavior that causes harm to him and others. It's apparent from the Newsom interviews that he is frustrated with having his integrity—and hence his leadership principles—put to question in this manner. As a result, Newsom says he is compelled to push back strongly against Fox News to ultimately defend his integrity and buttress his leadership values. Finally, Newsom makes clear that he wants Fox News to recant and apologize for what he deems defamatory behavior. He also wants the organization to recognize that it must hold its employees and anchors to higher ethical and professional standards going forward. Recommended reading: This Is How To Be An Effective Decision Maker: A Leadership Imperative 10 Things Too Risky To Delegate: Tasks Executives Should Handle Themselves Evaluate Your Career Legacy Impact With These 3 Categories Of Questions This Is Why Shepard Smith Ended His Career With Fox News
ABC News
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- ABC News
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2 hours ago
- Entertainment
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Cricket: Grandstand at Stumps - Kensington Oval Day 3
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Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fox News' Bret Baier Says He's Asked Trump Personally to Stop Calling Journalists ‘Enemy of the People'
Bret Baier has confronted President Trump personally about referring to journalists as the 'enemy of the people.' While speaking on The New Yorker Radio Hour, the Fox News host unpacked his history of being viewed both favorably and unfavorably by the president – including being called 'nasty' after a 2023 interview. Trump has increasingly attacked the press in his second term, and even more so in the wake of his recent bombings in Iran. 'I wish he wouldn't use it,' Baier said when asked about the president describing the press as 'enemy of the people.' Despite his own occasional clashes with Trump – and asking him personally to stop describing his fellow journalists that way – the host applauds him for being the most accessible president in some time. 'I think it is part of the man,' Baier said. 'I think it is part of his time here in New York as a New York real estate mogul, and the rough and tumble to punch back and to characterize your opposition before they can characterize you. I think that's part of it. I think it is this cat-and-mouse game. You know, for all of the things he says about the media. Again, he's reaching out and doing interviews with the same people he says are nasty.' The Trump administration has increased its attacks on the media in the wake of the bombing strike of Iran's nuclear facilities. On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went after his former colleague Jennifer Griffin for asking about the success of the strike. 'Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow Mountain?' Griffin asked. 'Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?' 'Jennifer, you've been about the worst,' Hegseth fired back at the question. He then said Griffin was perhaps the most prominent reporter 'who misrepresents what the president says' about the success of Operation Midnight Hammer. The post Fox News' Bret Baier Says He's Asked Trump Personally to Stop Calling Journalists 'Enemy of the People' appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Business
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Federal judge denies OpenAI bid to keep deleting data amid newspaper copyright lawsuit
NEW YORK — A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets including the Daily News suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement. The new ruling, issued Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, denied the company's objection to an earlier court order directing OpenAI to keep any data used to train its artificial intelligence bots — logs which plaintiffs say may contain details of widespread content piracy. OpenAI executives have maintained that they are merely safeguarding users' privacy by objecting to any data retention request or order. But lawyers for the plaintiffs said the privacy argument is nothing more than a distraction. 'This is like a magician trying to misdirect the public's attention,' said Steven Lieberman, a lawyer representing the News and several other media outlets. 'That is absolutely false. The judge has made clear and plaintiffs have made clear that they don't want to receive information that personally identifies the users of these conversations. If data is turned over, it will only be turned over anonymously. And OpenAI knows that. No one's privacy it's at risk.' The publishers' key argument at the core of their lawsuit is that the data that powers the company's popular ChatGPT has included millions of copyrighted works from the news organizations. The publications have argued that such content has been used without consent or payment — which translates to copyright infringement on a massive scale. Various reports have placed the company's value at $300 billion. making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, thanks in part to its online chatbox, ChatGPT, which was released in 2022. But when it comes to raw material — redistributed creative content — OpenAI took the cheap and easy way out, Lieberman said. 'They just stole it from the newspapers, from magazines and from book authors,' he said. A representative from OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. OpenAI has argued that the vast amount of data used to train its artificial intelligence bots is protected by 'fair use' rules. The doctrine applies to rules that allow some to use copyrighted work for purposes like criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching and research. However, lawyers for the newspapers have argued that the fair use test involves transforming a copyrighted work into something new, and the new work cannot compete with the original in the same marketplace. The court has rejected OpenAI's position that the newspapers haven't produced 'a shred of evidence' that people are using ChatGPT or OpenAI's API products to get news instead of paying for it. The New York Times originally brought the suit in December 2023. The News, along with other newspapers in affiliated companies MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, filed in April 2024. The other outlets included The Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Orange County Register and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Tribune Publishing's Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel.
