Sarah Palin Loses Defamation Suit Retrial Against the New York Times

Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has lost her defamation suit retrial against the New York Times.

The federal jury ruled after just two hours of deliberation on Tuesday that the New York Times was not guilty of libel when it falsely linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in an editorial it published in 2017. Per Axios:

Throughout this trial and the original 2022 trial, the Times asserted that the inaccurate link made in the editorial was a mistake.

It issued a formal correction of the piece, titled “America’s Lethal Politics,” two days after it was originally published on June 14.

Palin and her legal team argued that the Times and its former editorial page editor James Bennet for libel used “actual malice” in publishing the editorial.