{"id":2012965,"date":"2025-09-11T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2012965"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:59:23","slug":"ap-beats-defamation-lawsuit-from-u-s-navy-veteran-who-was-awarded-5-million-in-celebrity-land-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ap-beats-defamation-lawsuit-from-u-s-navy-veteran-who-was-awarded-5-million-in-celebrity-land-case\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Beats Defamation Lawsuit from U.S. Navy Veteran Who Was Awarded $5 Million in celebrity.land Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0630624\/\">Associated Press<\/a> won\u2019t have to face a defamation lawsuit over its reporting on the outcome of a trial between a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0619180\/\">U.S. Navy<\/a> veteran and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0165168\/\">celebrity.land<\/a>, which earlier this year lost a case over a 2021 story falsely accusing him of operating a \u201cblack market\u201d scheme to evacuate Afghans in the aftermath of the U.S. military withdrawal from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is said that for some movies or television shows, sequels, spinoffs or reboots should not be made,\u201d wrote Florida state court judge <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0378026\/\">William Henry<\/a>. \u201cOften times, the story line is forced, new characters are not properly developed, inconsistencies arise between the original plot and the sequel\u2019s, or the writers and producers are just lazy trying to cash in on a previously successful idea. These same things can be said of this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, a jury found that celebrity.land defamed the veteran, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2754388\/\">Zachary Young<\/a>. He later sued&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press won\u2019t have to face a defamation lawsuit over its reporting on the outcome of a trial between a U.S. Navy veteran and celebrity.land, which earlier this year lost a case over a 2021 story falsely accusing him of operating a \u201cblack market\u201d scheme to evacuate Afghans in the aftermath of the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2012966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2012965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP-Beats-Defamation-Lawsuit-from-US-Navy-Veteran-Who-Was.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}