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Jury Finds CNN Defamed Navy Veteran, Orders $5 Million in Damages

The news network reported in 2021 that Zachary Young was running a ‘black market’ operation to smuggle people out of Afghanistan.
Jury Finds CNN Defamed Navy Veteran, Orders $5 Million in Damages
The CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga., on June 26, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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A jury in Panama City, Florida, found CNN liable on Jan. 17 for defamation of a Navy veteran and ordered the network to pay $5 million in compensatory damages.

The charge stemmed from a story the cable news network did about Zachary Young, who smuggled people out of Afghanistan during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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