Last week CNN lost a defamation lawsuit and was ordered to pay $5 million to the plaintiff, though that amount does not include punitive damages which have yet to be revealed. Up next is MSNBC, the failing network is facing its own defamation lawsuit over a series of on-air reports in September 2020 about a doctor dubbed the “uterus collector” who was allegedly forcing women in ICE custody to undergo unnecessary surgeries.
Plaintiff Dr. Mahendra Amin, an obstetrician gynecologist who provided medical care to women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center, was accused in 2020 of performing unnecessary hysterectomies by a nurse at the facility who made a whistleblower complaint.
NBC published an article despite initial skepticism from the network’s standards department and MSNBC quickly followed with a series of on-air reports in which the doctor was…
