World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor

Powerful figures are increasingly threatening to sue media outlets before they have even published a story, the editor of the Wall Street Journal has said.

Emma Tucker, whose title is being sued by Donald Trump over its reporting of his relationship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said the act of reporting itself was now under threat from the use of lawfare.

She said the tactic of threatening to sue newspapers before they had published a story had become an established PR strategy of the powerful amid greater distrust of the established media.

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