Professor Enrique Armijo shared insights with the San Francisco station on a lawsuit filed against a cable news channel for making 鈥渄emonstrably false鈥 statements about Smartmatic, a company that builds electronic voting machines.
A San Francisco all-news radio station turned to an 黑料不打烊 Law professor for analysis of a lawsuit brought against a cable channel for its false statements and disparaging allegations about a company that manufactures voting machines.
Professor Enrique Armijo, a scholar of the First Amendment, spoke with KCBS Radio journalist Eric Thomas for a Sept. 26, 2024, report on defamation lawsuit against the right-wing Newsmax network.
In its coverage of the 2020 elections, Newsmax 鈥 as well as other conservative media platforms 鈥 made knowingly false statements and posed questions of whether 厂尘补谤迟尘补迟颈肠鈥檚 voting machines changed votes to help President Joe Biden win the White House.
From the report :
鈥淭he cable networks generally don鈥檛 like their internal communications being put out in the air. 厂尘补谤迟尘补迟颈肠鈥檚 claims here really rely on internal communications by people in Newsmax that are basically saying 鈥榯here is no truth to what we鈥檙e saying on the air鈥 in the form of emails, and in the form of confidential communications that Smartmatic has acquired during discovery. Because of that reason, because that laundry is so dirty, there鈥檚 a real motivation on the part of the cable companies to try to settle before we get to trial.鈥 聽
Armijo鈥檚 prediction was correct. Within hours of the broadcast,
About Professor Enrique Armijo
Enrique Armijo is a Fellow at George Washington University鈥檚聽Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill鈥檚 Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.
He teaches and researches in the areas of the First Amendment, constitutional law, torts, administrative law, media and internet law, and international freedom of expression. His scholarship addresses the interaction between new technologies and free speech.