Mastodawn

2025/07/27 #Trump v. #Murdoch (1:25-cv-23232, District Court, S.D. Florida) #Lawsuit https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/

Old ⁋27: "Notably, Murdoch and Thomson authorized the publication of the Article after President Trump put them both on notice that the letter was fake and nonexistent."

Pick a lane!

New ⁋⁋ 29-36: Convicted Felon Ghislaine Maxwell who can be granted a pardon by Trump if only she makes this Epstein connection just go away "cannot recall" if Trump sent Epstein a letter. Everyone else is dead.

A footnote suggests Trump made the DOJ ask her that question in July, 2025, something like a week after the initial complaint was filed.

New ⁋⁋ 50-75: Grasping a straws, strawmen, and bad arguments, Trump's lawyers attempt to flesh out an Actual Malice claim. But at the core they rest heavily on the believe if Trump says a thing it is true no matter what your lying eyes tells you. That's not how actual malice works.

Trump complains a lot that they don't reveal sources and methods in the article.

But just because the WSJ published an article without their journalistic notes and tradescraft doesn't mean there is evidence of its absence.

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> I would move immediately for a rule 11 motion ... tell them they have 21 days to withdraw this filing or they're going to you're going to file a motion for sanctions and for attorneys fees.

> This actual malice allegations I think is worse than what was put in the first complaint. And if I were the judge, I would do that and I'd file a bar complaint or make a bar referral to the Florida bar for these two lawyers having uh having brought this into the court, right? And violated their ethical standards in doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HsdPZuPVE

Richard Penner 3d ago

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Arpie4Math/116617832344253295

2025/07/27 #Trump v. #Murdoch (1:25-cv-23232, District Court, S.D. Florida) #Lawsuit

Trump attempts to revive his lawsuit which failed to plausibly pled actual malice:

Old ⁋13: "counsel for President Trump sent an email ... advising that the intended article was false"

New ⁋13: "[Karoline] Leavitt called ... to explain ... that the subject matter of the article ... was false"

New ⁋14: As old ⁋13.

New ⁋16: "Trump spoke to Murdoch ... and told him that the premise of the article was categorically false, and that he had not signed or sent a letter ..."

New ⁋17: Murdoch said "I will handle it" which assuaged Trump.

But the article was obviously published.

Old ⁋21: "the Article does not attach the purported letter, does not identify the purported drawing, nor does it show any proof that President Trump has anything to do with it."

New ⁋24: Adds "which he did not."

Neither version explains why the Estate gave Congress a whole book of birthday wishes which contains one very like that in the article.

Old ⁋22: "[It] does not explain whether Defendants have obtained a copy of the letter, have seen it, have had it described to them, or any other circumstances that would otherwise lend credibility to the Article. That is because the supposed letter is a fake and the Defendants knew it when they chose to deliberately defame President Trump."

New ⁋25: "[It] does not explain if or how Defendants Safdar, Palazzolo, Dow Jones, and News Corp even obtained a copy of the supposed letter. That is the case because they never obtained such a copy of the nonexistent letter."

This is a completely different theory of falsity and weakens all pre-lawsuit denials if they are only saying this now.

Mojo ♻️3d ago

Australia’s media ownership is becoming more concentrated by the day. Gina Rinehart quietly helped bankroll almost 10% of the company behind Channel Seven, Triple M, Hit radio, and major podcast networks, through a former Seven executive acting on her behalf.

When billionaires can quietly expand influence over the media that shapes public opinion, democracy suffers.

The body meant to regulate Australia’s media is funded by the very outlets it’s supposed to oversee. That is not independent regulation.

More than 27,000 people have already signed the petition calling for a truly independent media regulator. Add your name and demand accountability before even more media power ends up in fewer hands.

#auspol #media #murdoch #ginarinehart #channel7 #democracy #journalism #getup #australia

https://getup.to/ZjAeOfECJNrTx

gusseting 3d ago

@Qldaah What Adam Morton/The Guardian don't mention is that taxpayers subsidise fossil fuel at $8bn. Aside from mining, agriculture is also responsible. Who are the biggest landholding farmers in Australia?
The QLD government, along with Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest, Murdoch + Holmes a Court families. Yes, climate200 support diesel for Australia's richest farmers + carbon credits via farms.
#australia #fossilfuels #auspol #diesel #climate200 #murdoch #andrewforrest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/may/25/bhp-climate-promises-slash-emissions-global-solutions

Australian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

Given the scale of its contribution to global heating, the world’s biggest miner has a duty to invest heavily in solutions that could have a global impact

The Guardian

The Victorian News May 26

"A Murdoch backfire ..."
#mir #vicnews #ausnews #murdoch #newscorp #newsltd #heraldsun

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/alan-moir/moirs-view-1524/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Moir's View ...

A Murdoch backfire ...

VicNews

The Victorian News May 25

Herald Sun editor Sam Weir busted lying
#ausnews #vicnews #covid #heraldsun #murdoch #lies #bullshit #newscorp #newsire #newsltd #fox #sky #sad #corrections #lockdowns #emd

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/editorial-opinion/herald-sun-editor-sam-weir-busted-lying/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Herald Sun editor Sam Weir busted lying

SOUTHBANK, VIC. — In an editorial in yesterday's (Monday, May 25) Herald Sun, the editor, Sam Weir, discusses discounted prison sentences for prisoners serving time during the Victorian COVID-19 emergency. As the editor of this masthead, Ashley Geelan, was serving jail during this time, he has dissected and torn apart Sam Weir's editorial.

VicNews

Mojo ♻️May 24

Murdoch’s papers spent years screaming that tax cuts for billionaires would “trickle down”.
Now Labor tweaks super concessions for the ultra wealthy and suddenly it’s “class war”, “economic vandalism” and the end of civilisation.
Amazing how News Corp only discovers fiscal responsibility when rich people might pay tax.

#auspol #murdoch #newscorp #taxtherich #superannuation #budget #mediawatch

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy/2026/05/23/news-corps-budget-stitch

News Corp’s budget stitch-up

Labor’s budget has been met with the fiercest negative media campaign since Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, but the party is no longer scared of News Corp.

The Saturday Paper

Karl Schwartz, Artist advocate May 23

#Fox disinformation and its censorship of facts -- is a primary cause of the decline in US political competence, its rampant corruption, and state-sponsored denigration of scientists.

The public ignorance it promotes stalls timely action on existential threats to public well being ... climate change, unregulated AI, the rise of fascism.

#Murdoch #political #news