CNN’s defamation trial is the latest instance of liberal media being held accountable for sham reporting targeting people who are perceived to be their political opponents.

In 2021, CNN ran a segment talking about the private contractors helping to evacuate Afghans from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. These people were making President Joe Biden look bad since Biden was the one who let the Taliban take over Afghanistan and failed to help Afghan American allies (as well as hundreds of Americans) get out of the country. CNN’s Jake Tapper and Alexander Marquardt talked about “black markets” and “exorbitant fees,” claiming that these Afghans were being exploited by the people evacuating them.