Florida Libel Bill May Challenge Long-Standing Supreme Court Decision

Florida Libel Bill May Challenge Long-Standing Supreme Court Decision
A libel suit against CNN typifies what average people are up against if they are damaged by a story. Here, people walk by the world headquarters for the Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta on March 15, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Dan M. Berger
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Zak Young says his business and livelihood were destroyed—and innocent lives endangered—when CNN allegedly trashed him in TV and print stories.

As an elite security operator who had the skills and contacts to extract people from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban, Young saw himself savaged as a black marketer seeking to fleece helpless refugees and then not saving them to boot.