A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News brought by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, concluding there are plausible claims that the conservative cable network was party to a “campaign of emotional torture.”
The story in question, authored by Fox News staffer Malia Zimmerman, gave mainstream prominence to one of the most insidious conspiracy theories to arise out of the 2016 election. Suggesting that Rich’s death was a political assassination, it was promoted at various times by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, President Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone and then White House senior adviser Steve Bannon.
But the “Conspiracyland” series revealed that, just three days after his death, Russian intelligence agents had planted a conspiracy theory alleging Rich was gunned down by assassins working for Hillary Clinton. Writing for a unanimous three-member panel, U.S. Judge Guido Calabresi flatly labeled the Fox News story a “false” and “unsubstantiated” account that was contradicted by “official U.S. intelligence reports” and was retracted by the network eight days after it was published.
“We have no trouble concluding that — taking their allegations as true — the Riches plausibly alleged what amounted to a campaign of emotional torture,” the judge wrote.
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