(LifeSiteNews) Dr. Robert Malone, an expert in mRNA technology and a vocal COVID vaccines critic who has been consistently censored by Big Tech, is suing the Washington Post for defamation. The lawsuit alleges that the news outlet made defamatory statements against him in an article published on January 24.
The Post omitted the part where Malone said that vaccines “do not prevent omicron infection, viral replication, or spread to others.”
Speaking to The Epoch Times, Malone noted that he had “said nothing about disease and death at that point in time.” He went on to accuse the Post of selective misquoting and using the CDC study to counter a claim he never made.
The Epoch Times obtained details of an interview between the article’s writer, Timothy Bella, and Malone before the Post article was written. Bella told Malone, “I have respect for you and your body of work,” and that he was hoping to shadow the doctor during his stay in Washington, D.C., where he gave a speech at a protest against COVID mandates.
Malone initially sent a notice to the Post threatening legal action if the article was not removed or the defamatory statements retracted. When the outlet refused, he filed a lawsuit at a federal court in Virginia. According to the lawsuit, the article made ten defamatory statements against Malone, including that he has been “discredited,” his claims are “not only wrong, but also dangerous,” and that he “repeated falsehoods that have garnered him legions of followers.”
A copy of the complaint can be found here.
“The qualities WaPo [The Washington Post] disparaged – Dr. Malone’s honesty, veracity, integrity, competence, judgment, morals, and ethics as a licensed medical doctor and scientist – are peculiarly valuable to Dr. Malone and are absolutely necessary in the practice and profession of any medical doctor and scientist,” the suit reads.
Continuing, the lawsuit states that “WaPo ascribes to Dr. Malone conduct, characteristics, and conditions, including fraud, disinformation, misinformation, deception, and dishonesty, that would adversely affect his fitness to be a medical professional and to conduct the business of a medical doctor.”
