11th Circuit Told Fair Report Privilege Did Not Apply To Buzzfeed Dossier Article

Mealey's (March 4, 2019, 10:16 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — A businessman who sued Buzzfeed Inc. for deformation for posting an article linking him to purported Russian hacking activities, asks the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Feb. 28 appellant brief to find that a Florida federal judge improperly granted summary judgment to the website operator under New York’s fair report privilege, arguing that the privilege does not apply to unverified innuendo (Aleksej Gubarev, et al. v. Buzzfeed Inc., et al., No. 18-15295, 11th Cir.)....