Hunter Biden Sues Fox News Over Miniseries

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Jul 01, 2024

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The Facts

Hunter Biden, the son of US Pres. Joe Biden, is suing Fox News over its 2022 miniseries called “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” which portrayed “how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look.”
The lawsuit — filed in the Supreme Court of New York on Monday — accuses Fox of targeting Hunter “in an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation,” saying the series “sought to commercialize Mr. Biden’s personality.”

The Spin

Democratic narrative

Hunter Biden is right to sue Fox for its defamatory series that unlawfully published intimate images of him. The right-wing media and the Republican Party have spent the last five years pushing conspiracy theories about Pres. Biden and his son, yet they haven’t made any progress in finding evidence suggesting any form of inappropriate behavior.

Rolling Stone

Republican narrative

Hunter Biden’s lawsuit won't hold up, and even his attorneys acknowledge that much of Fox’s series contains true information. The entire suit revolves around images that were left on Biden’s abandoned laptop, meaning they weren’t stolen or hacked material. Fox even took down the miniseries despite it being legal under the First Amendment.