Joseph Arthur has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against the Los Angeles Times, alleging the newspaper falsely labeled him as an anti-vaxxer in a 2021 article about the singer-songwriter. The suit also shares a text exchange Arthur had with a Times reporter following the story’s publication on August 10, 2021 in which Arthur wrote that he is “not an anti vaxxer. The suit also alleged that the Times incorrectly stated that Arthur spread false statements about dangerous drugs or “debunked vaccine conspiracy theor[ies]. At the time of this article’s publication, Instagram’s fact-checking feature labeled at least three posts on Arthur’s page published two months before the LA Times article as false. A rep for the LA Times declined to comment, citing pending litigation.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 12, 2022 22:06 UTC