GotNews and Other Disreputable Sites Sued for Naming Innocent Teen as the Charlottesville Killer The sites are accused of defamation. https://www.snopes.com/2018/02/17/gotnews-disreputable-sites-sued-naming-innocent-teen-charlottesville-killer/ By Bethania Palma 18 February 2018 Three disreputable web sites including GotNews.com, FreedomDaily.com and GatewayPundit.comhave been named in a federal lawsuit accusing them of defamation for allegedly falsely naming an innocent teenager as the driver who rammed into and killed a counter-demonstrator
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CNN’s “Man misidentified as Charlottesville driver had to flee home; plans to sue far-right sites” Andrew Sommerman speaks out
“There are consequences to fake news,” Sommerman told CNN. “There are consequences to false reporting.” “My message to those outlets is that if your words can cause great harm, and has caused great harm, you must suffer the consequences of the law as a result,” he added. “And the law does not tolerate this type
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CNN’s “Man misidentified as Charlottesville driver had to flee home; plans to sue far-right sites” Andrew Sommerman speaks out
“There are consequences to fake news,” Sommerman told CNN. “There are consequences to false reporting.” “My message to those outlets is that if your words can cause great harm, and has caused great harm, you must suffer the consequences of the law as a result,” he added. “And the law does not tolerate this type
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“Attorney says he’ll go after alt-right websites that falsely blamed Michigan man”, Attorney Andrew Sommerman takes on alt-right news
See snippets from Attorney Andrew Sommerman featured in the Detroit Free Press: “I don’t think it’s careless,” attorney says. “I think it was their intent to try to muddle” the truth of what happened in Charlottesville. A Michigan man was falsely accused by conservative and alt-right websites as being the driver of Saturday’s deadly car attack on
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