Attorney Vel Freedman won a landmark defamation case against CNN for his client, Navy veteran Zachary Young. At a time where polls show there is a growing mistrust in legacy media, attorney Devin ...

At his closing statement for the CNN defamation lawsuit, Zachary Young's attorney Devin Freedman questioned whether CNN expected jurors to be "stupid" enough to believe their "bold face lies." ...

At one point, when Freedman resumed the video, Marquardt was revealed to have allegedly faked the call and waived his hands and said, "theater" to his CNN colleagues in an exaggerated British accent.

CNN editors called the segment at the center of a defamation suit an "infernal story," but the network aired it anyway, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

Freedman also argued that CNN's internal mentions of "extortion" and "fraud" from the report's inception make it clear the network knew from the beginning that they were investigating Young for ...

The plaintiff in CNN’s ongoing defamation trial accused CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt of staging a phone call to him for "theater," but the reporter insists the call was made and simply ...

CNN settled with a security consultant after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him in a story that suggested he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people from Afghanistan in 2021.

CNN's Alex Marquardt was reluctant to admit he made money as a journalist while covering war zones after he took aim at Zachary Young's Afghanistan evacuation fees.

CNN moved last week to keep the fact that correspondent Alex Marquardt received a raise and promotion out of an upcoming defamation trial against the network, but U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young ...