Buzzfeed’s Fair Reporting Defense OK’d In Defamation Suit Over DNC Hack Article

Mealey's (June 6, 2018, 10:37 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — Buzzfeed Inc. may proceed with its affirmative defense of the fair reporting privilege in defamation lawsuit over its online publication of an article on purported Russian attempts to hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) database, a Florida federal judge ruled June 4, denying in part a motion for judgment on the pleadings by a plaintiff who says he was wrongly implicated in the article (Aleksej Gubarev, et al. v. Buzzfeed Inc., et al., No. 0:17-cv-60426, S.D. Fla.)....