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On June 1, a jury ruled in favor of actor Johnny Depp in the dueling defamation cases between him and his ex-wife and actor Amber Heard. The trial garnered national media attention, including on social media, where attacks on Heard exploded. Media Matters compiled and analyzed over 13,700 posts about the trial from news and politics Facebook pages for the duration of the trial April 11 through June 1 and found that nine pages affiliated with right-wing media outlet The Daily Wire dominated discussions of the trial, posting thousands of times while earning millions of interactions and video views. Our key findings include: Since the beginning of the trial, news and politics pages have posted about it on Facebook over 13,700 times, earning nearly 37 million interactions. Nine Facebook pages affiliated with The Daily Wire posted about the trial nearly 2,500 times, earning over 6.3 million interactions. These posts from Daily Wire pages account for nearly 47% of posts a

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