The family of Seth Rich, the DNC staffer whose shooting death in 2016 spurred countless conspiracy theories, filed suit against the originator and perpetrator of those theories: Fox News. Rich’s family was subjected to an onslaught after his death, in part, due to a Fox News article published May 16, 2017 that claimed the 27-year-old was murdered as part of a conspiracy linked to WikiLeaks, which released 20,000 DNC emails in the days after Rich’s death that turned the presidential race upside down. The suit, which also names Fox News investigative reporter Malia Zimmerman as well as Republican donor and Fox News contributor Ed Butowsky, alleges the story, now retracted, contained “false and fabricated facts.”
from Stories from Slate http://ift.tt/2FAtJx0
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