Buzzfeed Prevails In Russian Dossier Defamation Suit; New York Times To Intervene

Mealey's (December 21, 2018, 8:57 AM EST) -- MIAMI — Buzzfeed Inc. was granted summary judgment Dec. 19 in a defamation lawsuit filed over its 2017 reporting on the Trump campaign’s purported ties to Russia, with a Florida federal judge finding that the website operator sufficiently established its defense under the fair report privilege (Aleksej Gubarev, et al. v. Buzzfeed Inc., et al., No. 0:17-cv-60426, S.D. Fla., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 213036)....