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Opinion & Speculation of The Baish| | It has been reported by the Daily Caller (and has been independently verified by documents obtained by The Daily Wire) that conservative television station One America News Network (OANN) has officially issued a “cease-and-desist retraction letters to both The Daily Beast and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

The letters, which were sent last Thursday, allege that Maddow and The Daily Beast’s Kevin Poulson alike defamed OANN by linking the network to the Russian government and, in the case of Maddow, decrying the network as ‘literally … Russian propaganda.’

The cease-and-desist letters give the recipients a deadline of August 15 to issue public retractions,” reports the Daily Wire.

According to the Wire, “The involvement of a prominent conservative media outlet in a defamation dispute against other media personalities provides a good opportunity to delve into the state of defamation law in the United States.

Specifically, it is important to understand why a hypothetical defamation lawsuit filed by OANN would face an uphill battle under existing U.S. Supreme Court precedent — but why that might not be the case (perhaps especially as applied to Maddow) under an originalist understanding of the First Amendment.”

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Via the Daily Caller:

One America News Network (OANN) demanded retractions from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and The Daily Beast’s Kevin Poulsen after both suggested links between the network and Russian propaganda.

Poulsen wrote an article stating OANN’s Kristian Rouz is a “Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.” That same day, Maddow said on “The Rachel Maddow Show” that OANN “really, literally is Russian propaganda.”