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Arrogance sank CNN

Washington Post - Erik Wemple · Erik Wemple · last updated

Katie Bo Lillis, a CNN national security reporter, provided key testimony on Wednesday during a Florida defamation trial in which her reporting has come under scrutiny. The case relates to the work of Zachary Young, a Navy veteran and security contractor who sued CNN over a November 2021 story that rested in part on Lillis’s reporting.

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