Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden vs Fox News: Controversy reaches court. What we know so far
Hunter Biden has sued Fox News accusing the American news outlet of unlawfully publishing explicit images of him as part of a series. President Joe Biden's son has filed the lawsuit in state court in Manhattan.
The bone of contention here is the images that were used in «The Trial of Hunter Biden». The show was released on the streaming service Fox Nation in 2022.
The lawsuit claims the dissemination of intimate images without his consent violated New York's so-called revenge porn law.
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«Fox published and disseminated these Intimate Images to its vast audience of millions as part of an entertainment program in order to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr. Biden and to tarnish his reputation,» according to the lawsuit, as per AP report.
A Fox News spokesperson called it an «entirely politically motivated lawsuit» that was «devoid of merit» in an emailed statement. The statement noted that attorneys for Biden sent them a letter demanding its removal from streaming platforms in April 2024, AP reported.
«The program was removed within days of the letter, in an abundance of caution, but Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of multiple investigations and is now a convicted felon. Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr. Biden's own making, and we look forward to vindicating our rights in court,» according to the emailed statement, the
