Zachary Young filed a $1 billion suit against the network on June 12 over a November 2021 segment by reporter Alex Marquardt that aired on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” that portrayed his ...

A Florida jury found CNN liable on Friday in a high-stakes defamation trial against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, who alleged ... country following the U.S. military withdrawal.

Earlier in the day, the network was ordered to pay Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory ... Afghans fleeing the country ...

The last-minute settlement of the closely watched media trial came together hours after a six-person jury in Panama City concluded that CNN’s reporting on the plaintiff, Zachary Young ...

Major General James Young ... about the United States military's withdrawal from Afghanistan. He is accusing CNN of defamation and libel. In the lawsuit, Zachary alleges that he was rendered ...

A CNN senior vice president questioned whether a segment featuring Zachary Young was the cause of several ... evacuate Afghan citizens during the U.S. military's withdrawal from the nation.

CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 report portraying him as illegally exploiting Afghans by charging exorbitant fees to be evacuated in the aftermath of the U.S. military withdrawal from ...

CNN and Zachary Young, the Navy veteran a Florida jury found that the network had defamed, reached a settlement late on Friday afternoon, just hours after the initial verdict came down.