Upheaval at the BBC: Is it a crisis or a coup?

Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology

 

US president says he will sue the corporation for ‘anywhere between a billion and $5bn’

Donald Trump has said he still plans to sue the BBC despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading edit of one of his speeches.

The row, over an episode of Panorama from last year about the Capitol riot in 2021, led to accusations of bias at the broadcaster and the resignation of two of the most senior executives at the BBC: the director general, Tim Davie; and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of news.

The US president previously said he would take legal action if he did not get an apology but on Friday evening Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5bn, probably sometime next week. We have to do it.”

Panorama is restricted for broadcast in the UK only. Meaning that Donald Trump's reputation in America couldn't possibly have been damaged.  

According to a UK based media solicitor he has little legal recourse in his quest to get a monetary settlement from the BBC.  

Donald Trump is so lacking in self confidence, immature and insecure that's amazing he can even get out of bed. 

Can Donald Trump sue the BBC for $1bn and which party would win?

 US president has said he will bring proceedings if the documentary containing an edited speech from 6 January 2021 is not retracted

Where will Trump sue?

As the Panorama episode was first broadcast on 28 October last year, Trump has missed the boat for filing a defamation claim in London, where it must be brought within a year. However, in Florida the statute of limitations is two years, so he is not timed out, and BBC content is available through BBC.com in the US, where there is also the BBC Select streaming service.

A letter from Trump’s lawyer to the BBC notified them of his intention to bring proceedings in Florida if there is “not a full and fair retraction of the documentary”, an apology and appropriate compensation for the harm caused.

Can Trump sue the BBC in Florida?

According to a UK media solicitor Donald Trump would have difficulty bringing a case against the BBC in America as the Panorama episode in dispute was never broadcast in the America as the BBC's Iplayer isn't available for streaming in the country. 

As in previous legal action brought against other media organizations in America by Donald Trump two things are involved here. Retribution and intimidation. 

Further in the case with the BBC Donald Trump and his allies are trying to rewrite the history of the attempted coup by his supporters on 6 January 2021. 

    

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The stupid never eases up in America. A group of people living in New Rochelle New York are suing the World Health Organization (WHO) for? It's cover up with China,  for hiding the extent of the coronavirus outbreak.   New Rochelle was the first coronavirus hot spot in the state of New York. Instead of blaming the person who caused the delay in testing, providing protective equipment to medical personnel and EMT's/paramedics and downplaying the lethality of the coronavirus Donald Trump. These fools are buying into his completely ridiculous and lorry full of cow manure conspiracy theory that it was the WHO and China that lead to their either being infected or in the case of some dying from the virus. 

Instead of believing the science these idiots decided to take the word of one Donald Trump, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.  Sure Darwin Award winners

The World Health Organisation is accused of conspiring with the Chinese government to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in New York.

Residents from one of the earliest and hardest-hit counties in the US claim the World Health Organisation (WHO) failed to quickly declare a pandemic, monitor China's response to the outbreak, provide treatment guidelines, advise members on how to respond including through travel restrictions, or coordinate a global response.

The WHO on 14 January tweeted that there was no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel virus identified in Wuhan, China.

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US Journalists Sue Trump DHS: 'Coordinated Attack' On Press

Five journalists, all US citizens, were tracked, detained, and interrogated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for reporting on conditions at the southern border in 2018. Now they're suing the Trump administration.


By Common Dreams

When I saw my photo crossed out in a secret government database, I realized the secondary screening and interrogation wasn't random. I was being targeted by my own government for reporting on conditions at the border." —Bing Guan, photojournalist

Five journalists who were tracked, detained, and interrogated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for reporting on conditions at the southern border in 2018 and 2019 brought a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday for what the ACLU called an "unprecedented, coordinated attack on the freedom of the press."

The national ACLU, joined by chapters in New York and California, filed the suit (pdf) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Bing Guan, Go Nakamura, Mark Abramson, Kitra Cahana, and Ariana Drehsler. The five are all U.S. citizens who traveled to Mexico as professional photojournalists.

Devin Nunes sues Twitter, and Devin Nunes' cow, and Devin Nunes' mom, and it's hilarious

Mark Sumner 

 

Daily Kos Staff

Devin Nunes doesn’t think that his Twitter messages are getting read by enough people. So he’s suing Twitter for $250 million. And while he’s at it, he’s suing Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom for $350 million for being mean to him.

What Fox is promoting as a “major lawsuit” may be the most hilarious Devin Nunes moment since he jumped from a moving car, ran to meet two White House operatives at the White House, then began a circus of press conferences about the non-thing of “unmasking” that ended with Nunes blaring confidential info and earning himself a visit to the Ethics Committee. But that was when Nunes at least had blocking every single subpoena issued to collect evidence in the Russia investigations and creating a Russia report written only by Republicans to keep him occupied. Now, unburdened by the pressures of even faking an investigation, Nunes is free to let his conspiracy theories fly.

This time it’s “shadow banning.” Shadow banning is a theory among far-right Twitter users that the site is holding them back by filtering their tweets from the streams of readers. As a result, Trump-loving Twitterites are left to tweet into the void, thinking they are reaching their hoards of eager followers, only to discover their posts have actually been seen by only the latest generation of Russian chat-bots. Nunes is demanding not just a quarter-billion dollars, but the Twitter code so he can prove, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he would be the most popular kid in class if only They weren’t out to get him.

At the same time, Nunes is suing for $350 million in compensation for people posting mean tweets about him. He wants their money, and he wants Twitter to … unmask them. Or else. Possibly the best thing about this lawsuit is that Nunes is suing the parody accounts Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom, and his lawsuit is chockablock with examples of their jokes at his expense. 

Except that’s really not the best part. The best part is that, just last year, Devin Nunes was the sponsor of the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.

“Shadow banning,” like Nunes’ “unmasking” claims, or his “incidental collection” claims, or his “no evidence of collusion” claims, is completely not real. Twitter has explained that at times it has failed to relay messages from all users, but a few users have convinced themselves this phenomenon isn’t a glitch, but an intentional suppression of their vital, impressive, and absolutely interesting speech. Proof? If that wasn’t the case, then why don’t more people read their stuff? 

The evidence that Twitter’s flaws have hit both left and right are there for anyone who bothers to look—and often irritating to anyone who tries to use the service and would simply like to get What Was Written, When It Was Written rather than having Twitter’s algorithms keep pitching up the same “popular” tweets that have already been seen before. But Nunes has bought into a theory that Twitter isn’t just engaged in an irritating effort to please by showing users “good stuff.” He believes they are somehow flagging accounts on the right and placing a blue birdy thumb on the scale to hold them down. The fact that this would require a level of human intervention that Twitter has never begun to demonstrate doesn’t seem to bother the people who cling to this theory.

But the fact that Nunes picked out tweets such as Devin Nunes’ Cow calling him “udderly ridiculous” or Devin Nunes’ Mom threatening to take away his Minecraft privileges and put them in the lawsuit ... it’s just … extra tasty. And, in a perfect demonstration of how the system works, both those accounts are seeing huge increases in their popularity.

The Cow account, which had just over 1,000 followers before Nunes filed suit, had 28,000 by Monday night, and 53,000—and growing—on Tuesday morning.

Devin, the secret sauce of Twitter isn’t an algorithm. It’s the users. And they don’t like you. They really don’t like you.

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