From the Washington Free Beacon: Nina Jankowicz, the Democratic activist who briefly served as “disinformation czar” under former president Joe Biden, is soliciting donations after losing her defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Jankowicz lashed out earlier this week when a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss her case. “I am furious,” she ranted hysterically on her Substack page, Wiczipedia, while announcing the “sad” news of her defeat. She urged followers to open their wallets and donate via the GoFundMe she launched to help pay her legal fees.
Jankowicz, a self-described disinformation expert who supported efforts to suppress reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story, sued Fox News in 2023 for tarnishing her career with criticism that made her feel unsafe. The lawsuit received a glowing writeup in the New York Times, which included a photo of Jankowicz posing defiantly in front of a government building. Jankowicz alleged that Fox News’s defamatory coverage forced her to resign in 2022 from the Disinformation Governance Board, the short-lived agency she briefly helmed at the Department of Homeland Security, and caused unspecified harm to her well-being that could only be fixed with a massive financial settlement.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals did not agree, which prompted Jankowicz to denounce the U.S. justice system for failing to “meet the moment.” She invoked the assassination of Charlie Kirk in an effort to place the court’s tragic ruling in the appropriate context. “As the nation reels from the highest profile political assassination in decades, following a year of other high profile acts of political violence, it’s hard not to interpret the Third Circuit’s decision as a shrug: to the suffering Fox’s coverage caused me, to the suffering the network’s lies have caused others, and to our suffering democracy, abdicating the role the courts might play in healing our poisoned political discourse,” she seethed in an unprecedented assault on the rule of law.
In her Substack post, Jankowicz whined that the court’s “chilling” decision “failed to punish Fox News for manufacturing a “fake controversy” that will “forever affect my life, my career, and my family’s safety.”
Now she’s vowing to continue to speak out and to “resist the assault on our rights and freedoms being perpetrated by the Trump Administration and its allies.”
The Free Beacon shared a video Jankowicz posted when she begged for money to file her lawsuit against Fox News in 2023.
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Nina Jankowicz, the Democratic activist and short-lived “disinformation czar,” sued Fox News in 2023, alleging that the network’s defamatory coverage forced her to resign from the Biden administration’s ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board and caused unspecified harm… pic.twitter.com/J0FBMRdSRN
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 18, 2025
Now she’s big-time MAD that her lawsuit against Fox was tossed out.
“As a disinformation researcher, the part of the outcome that stands out most to me is the failure of the law to meet this moment in our information ecosystem,” Jankowicz added.
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 18, 2025
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— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 18, 2025
Below is a copy of the bizarre video Jankowicz posted during her “misinformation czar” stunt. The video ultimately made her a laughingstock of the nation, and resulted in her ultimate downfall.
“Misinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz’s libel lawsuit against @FoxNews was dismissed by Third Circuit Court Judge Felipe Restrepo.
Nice try Nina…🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/PpSzghHzvz
— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) September 17, 2025
Disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz reveals some “sad” news to her audience. She has lost her defamation lawsuit against Fox News. She’s “furious” at the judges.
She’s renaming her GoFundMe to the “Nina Jankowicz Legal Defense Fund” https://t.co/msgWCz0MTw pic.twitter.com/V4iX7K6uw6
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2025
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