Candace Owens Loses (Again) in Crusade to Sue Facebook's Fact-Checkers

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/delaware-supreme-court-upholds-dismissal-of-candace-owens-lawsuit-against-facebook-fact-checkers

Candace Owens Loses (Again) in Crusade to Sue Facebook’s Fact-Checkers
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AJ McDougall
Breaking News Intern
Zachary Petrizzo
Media Reporter
Published Feb. 22, 2022 11:25PM ET

Conservative commentator Candace Owens suffered yet another legal setback on Tuesday, with Delaware’s highest court upholding a dismissal of her lawsuit against two fact-checking media companies. The Delaware Supreme Court issued a 68-word order affirming the July dismissal of Owens’ contract interference suit against USA Today and Colorado company Lead Stories LLC, which both published articles in 2020 correcting Facebook posts she had made downplaying the severity of COVID. The media organizations are two of dozens paid by Facebook to publish articles on misleading posts, according to the Associated Press. USA Today and Lead Stories’ articles, Owens contented, strangled multiple sources of income for her, including revenue from Facebook advertising. The judge who dismissed Owens’ suit last year said that, among other failings, she hadn’t demonstrated that either company had come between her and her contract with Facebook. “This is a great day for fact-checking and the First Amendment,” Lead Stories’ co-founder Alan Duke told The Daily Beast on Tuesday night via phone, adding that the ruling affirmed “we do have a role in fact-checking.” “We have our processes down to where we are able to be unbiased and straight forward.”

[IzzaNuDay]

1. Schadenfraude!

Nothing makes me happier than to see CO taken down legally. She has this warped sense of entitlement, and to see the legal system call her out for it is awesome.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Regarding Ms Owens, Terry Prachett said it best:

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”
― Feet of Clay

[IronLionZion]

2. My city's dumbest resident

When COVID started, she went to her neighborhood Whole Foods every day with no mask just to harass the workers.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Why does she have a contract with Facebook?

[babylonsister]

5. I wondered the same thing. So

anyone with a bone to pick, real or imagined, can contract with FB to make $$? Hmmm, I don't know how any of this works, but does not seem legit.

[Eugene]

6. Advertising revenue sharing deal with Facebook promoting her book.

Truth telling apparently does not constitute actionable harm to a grift.

Owens claimed the defendants’ articles prevented her from deriving advertising revenue from her Facebook page and promoting her book “Blackout” on Facebook. She sued USA Today and Lead Stories for intentional interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective business relations, and unfair competition. She also filed separate defamation claims against Lead Stories.

Karsnitz, a Democrat, ruled that Owens had failed to show that statements made by Lead Stories were false under a “reasonable conceivability” standard. He also said readers would not understand the term “Hoax Alert” to mean that Owens was intentionally spreading a lie. Karsnitz also ruled that Owens failed to adequately plead that the defendants improperly or wrongfully interfered with the contract between her and Facebook.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-media-lawsuits-delaware-893c9abd2dd94cf65e6975a440525f17