she was defending the claim on the basis of public interest. the businessman and prominent brexit supporter aaron banks has lost a high court libel claim against the investigative journalist carol cadwallader, the court ruling dismissed his claim concluding that she held a reasonable old belief that her comments were in the public interest. we have more on that breaking story coming up for you. an australian newspaper has denied threatening to out the actress rebel wilson amid a storm of criticism over its reporting of her new relationship with a woman. emily brown reports. june is the month of pride events, celebrating the lgbtq+ community around the world. it was not a time actress and comedian rebel wilson expected to be outed by an australian newspaper. but when the sydney morning herald gave her two days to comment on her new relationship with a woman which it was about to report, rebel decided to out herself.
what was at stake here potentially? for carole cadwalladr, this is something she said was a matter of free speech and of responsible journalism. she has been a journalist for many years now, looking at both the election of donald trump and of course the referendum and brexit in 2016. she did a ted talk in 2019 and this case was about two sentences, 2a words. it was about arron banks who was behind the leave.eu campaign organisation. she asked questions about what he had said about any russian connection there was with the campaign, alleged covert relationship with the russian
christopher wylie and said, oh, by the way, have you still got the data? can you tick a box and tell us that you ve deleted it? so there s key timings going on here but it was only when cambridge analytica started were brought on so steve bannon was brought on to work with trump that facebook suddenly thought, oh, there may be some issue here now and took efforts to try and secure the data. but the efforts they went to are so pathetic. christopher says they literally sent him a form and said tick a box and tell us that you ve deleted it and did nothing else to ensure it had been. carol cadwallader, thank you so much. joining us now, jim himes from connecticut. congressman, i m going to read one of your tweets from saturday to start things off here. as real donald trump floats