Sky News, on UK Politics, 11 November 2026
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BBC bid to throw out Donald Trump's defamation case dismissed in court
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Sky News never says that Judge Kuntz threw out Mr Trump's unfair trade practices claim while letting the defamation claim proceed. The Independent reported this the same morning. Without it, a reader of the headline and body takes the BBC's bid to dismiss as having failed on every count, when it partly succeeded.
How we know
- The Independent reported“can proceed, while throwing out an unfair trade practices claim”BBC's legal battle with Donald Trump takes major step forward (opens in a new tab)
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Read the original article on news.sky.com (opens in a new tab)What we found (1)
Sky News reports that a Florida judge has let Donald Trump's $10bn defamation claim against the BBC over the edited Panorama documentary go ahead, and it attributes each side's claims to the people who made them. It is careful to say the judge did not decide whether Mr Trump's claims are proved. The one gap is that it never mentions the judge threw out Mr Trump's unfair trade practices claim, so readers may take the BBC's bid as having failed entirely.
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Sky News never says that Judge Kuntz threw out Mr Trump's unfair trade practices claim while letting the defamation claim proceed. The Independent reported this the same morning. Without it, a reader of the headline and body takes the BBC's bid to dismiss as having failed on every count, when it partly succeeded.
How we know
- The Independent reported“can proceed, while throwing out an unfair trade practices claim”BBC's legal battle with Donald Trump takes major step forward (opens in a new tab)
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