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One of the internet’s most famous ‘Karens’ has lost a lawsuit against her former employer.
Amy Cooper claimed she’d been illegally fired and portrayed as racist, after a video of her accusing a Black bird-watcher of threatening her and calling the police went viral in 2020.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams rejected Cooper’s claims that she’d been defamed by her former employer, Franklin Templeton, when it gave her the boot in the aftermath of the viral incident.
“The contents of the viral video, as well as the dialogue surrounding it both in the media and on social media, were already matters of public knowledge,” which made the defendants’ statements “inactionable as pure opinion,” Abrams’ decision read.
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