Nabiha Syed
Role at the time: Media lawyer and then-chief executive of The Markup writing in her own name
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Syed argues that weakening actual malice would not address much online misinformation and could harm journalists.
“But meaningfully addressing those challenges will have very little to do with Sullivan’s actual malice standard.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Sullivan Is Not the Problem · Knight First Amendment Institute
In this 2021 essay, Nabiha Syed disputes the argument that weakening actual malice would solve online misinformation. She separates reputational injury from other harmful falsehoods. No exact publication day is assigned here.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The fixed reference point is keeping Sullivan's protections. Syed defends keeping them. Her argument for other misinformation remedies does not make that support conditional.