This week kicked off the potentially huge defamation court case involving CNN and military veteran and former specialized extraction contractor Zachary Young in a Florida Court. As we reported back in June, the suit being tried in Panama City involves reporting made on the Jake Tapper broadcast where reporter Alex Marquardt insinuated that Young was operating a black market service to help Afghans flee their country as the disastrous U.S. extraction took place in 2021.
A brief summary of the case: Young’s claim is that the CNN report described his legitimate business of aiding people to leave dangerous locations and hot zones as “black market,” i.e., illegal work. Young was entirely ruined after the report suggested he was operating illegally and extorting citizens with high payment demands, and as a result, he has been unable to work in that field….
