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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon against The New York Times and TMZ that claimed the newspaper's reporting on the tribe's first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.
The suit was filed in May by the Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the Amazon rainforest.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Tiana J. Murillo on Tuesday sided with the Times, whose lawyers argued in a hearing Monday that its coverage last year was fair and protected by free speech.
TMZ argued that its coverage, which followed the Times' initial reporting, addressed ongoing public controversies and matters of public interest.
The suit claimed stories by TMZ and Yahoo amplified and sensationalized the Times' reporting and smeared the tribe in the process. Yahoo was dismissed as a defendant earlier this month.
Murillo wrote in her ruling that though some may “reasonably perceive” the Times' and TMZ's reporting as “insensitive, disparaging or reflecting a lack of respect, the Court need not, and does not, determine which of these characterizations is most apt.”
The judge added that “regardless of tone, TMZ's segment contributed to existing debate over the effects of internet connectivity on remote Indigenous communities.”
“We are pleased by the comprehensive and careful analysis undertaken by the court in dismissing this frivolous lawsuit," Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement Wednesday to The Associated Press. "Our reporter traveled to the Amazon and provided a nuanced account of tension that arose when modern technology came to an isolated community.”
Attorneys for TMZ did not immediately respond to an email request for comment Wednesday.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit included the tribe, community leader Enoque Marubo and Brazilian journalist and sociologist Flora Dutra, who were both mentioned in the June 2024 story. Both were instrumental in bringing the tribe the internet connection, which they said has had many positive effects including facilitating emergency medicine and the education of children.
The lawsuit sought at least $180 million, including both general and punitive damages, from each of the defendants.
Messages seeking comment from attorney N. Micheli Quadros, who represents the tribe, Marubo and Dutra were not immediately answered Wednesday.
The suit argued that the Times' story by reporter Jack Nicas on how the group was handling the introduction of internet service via Starlink satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX “portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations that their youth had become consumed by pornography.”
“These statements were not only inflammatory but conveyed to the average reader that the Marubo people had descended into moral and social decline as a direct result of internet access,” an amended version of the lawsuit said.
The court disagreed with the tribe's claims that the Times article falsely implied its youth were “addicted to pornography,” noting that the coverage only mentioned unidentified young men had access to porn and did not state that the tribe as a whole was addicted to pornography.
Nicas reported that in less than a year of Starlink access, the tribe was dealing with the same struggles the rest of the world has dealt with for years due to the pervasive effects of the internet. The challenges ranged from “teenagers glued to phones; group chats full of gossip; addictive social networks; online strangers; violent video games; scams; misinformation; and minors watching pornography," Nicas wrote.
He also wrote that a tribal leader said young men were sharing explicit videos in group chats. The piece doesn't mention porn elsewhere, but other outlets amplified that aspect of the story. TMZ posted a story with the headline, “Elon Musk's Starlink Hookup Leaves A Remote Tribe Addicted To Porn.”
The Times published a follow-up story in response to misperceptions brought on by other outlets in which Nicas wrote: “The Marubo people are not addicted to pornography. There was no hint of this in the forest, and there was no suggestion of it in The New York Times's article.”
Nicas wrote that he spent a week with the Marubo tribe. The lawsuit claimed that while he was invited for a week, he spent less than 48 hours in the village, “barely enough time to observe, understand, or respectfully engage with the community."
Source: LiveMint
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