by Joel B Pollak at Breitbart News
In a tweet that he later deleted, Elias said: “If the media is not going to be pro-democracy, then it probably is time for the courts to revisit New York Times v Sullivan (as conservative lawyers suggest). The case was premised on a role in democracy that the main stream press seems increasingly disinterested in playing.”
Marc Elias tweet (Twitter)
Elias was referring to a case that requires public figures to prove “actual malice” in defamation lawsuits, which means they cannot prevail if an article is merely wrong.
Some conservatives have indeed challenged the standard, but Elias appeared to be angered by the fact that the Times reported on his funding at all, rather than challenging the information in the article.
On Saturday, the Times reported that Democrats had outspent Republicans by 66% in terms of “dark money” in the 2020 election cycle, despite complaining for a decade about such funding. The article also identified Elias’s alleged funding:…
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