As I suspected, fake news.
No lobbyists are mentioned whatsoever, which is why 2 individual bloggers are being sued instead of a lobbyist group or other organization. Seems Mann has a history of continually suing just to see what sticks.
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This isn’t Mr. Mann’s first legal rodeo. In 2011 he sued geographer Tim Ball in
Canadian court for saying in an interview that “Michael Mann at Penn State
should be in the state pen, not Penn State.” In 2019 a Canadian judge dismissed the charges because of the “inexcusable” delay in the trial and ordered Mr. Mann to pay Ball’s legal costs. But news reports say Mr. Mann never paid, and Ball died
in 2022.
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Michael Mann, a professor of meteorology at Penn State University and co-author of the well-known “hockey-stick graph” about global warming, sued the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review magazine for defamation when they published articles accusing him of “molesting” the data.
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Here's what the 2 individuals said that somehow is being considered legal defamation;
"molesting and torturing data in the service of politicized science, engaging in data manipulation, and creating the fraudulent climate-change 'hockey-stick' graph."
Apparently if I make a critical comment about a public figure I can be sued for a million dollars. This is not a good precedent to set. It will not stand up in supreme court, because that court will preserve the 1st amendment; the very thing neo-authoritarians attack the most.