Courts

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.
Google LogoMark Us Preferred on Google
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
|Updated:
0:00

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.

Google LogoMark Us Preferred on Google
Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
Reporter
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.
twitter