Read the NewsGuard decision.
Consortium News also objected to NewsGuards characterization of its reporting as from an anti-U.S. perspective.
Failla concluded that the allegedly defamatory statements were protected opinion, and not actionable.
The judge, however, determined that the rating was protected opinion.
Consortium News does not allege that its position is true and NewsGuards is false.
Rather, Plaintiff concedes that its position is but one perspective, Failla wrote.
Consortium News also claimed that the contract between the U.S. government and NewsGuard violated the First Amendment.
The military contract with NewsGuard ended in 2022.
Failla called Consortiums citation of the EO the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass.
At issue was a low rating that NewsGuard gave to Newsmax.
NewsGuards lower ratings also have been given to left-leaning sites.
