After successfully winning a consequential defamation suit against CNN in January, Navy veteran Zachary Young has media-industry publication Puck News in his sights. According to a complaint filed in Bay County, Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit on Friday, and exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, Young accused left-leaning Puck News, via the reporting of “entertainment law expert” Eriq Gardner, of choosing to “repeat and spread the false claims of CNN.”
The alleged defamation stemmed from Gardner’s December 10, 2024 article with Young accusing Puck of uncritically parroting CNN’s defamatory claims as fact (emphasis added to highlight):
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