Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.

John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    62·
    8 months ago

    That’s simply not true. Defamation/libel against a public company requires “actual malice”, which essentially means that the news outlet would have to have evidence that what they’re saying is not true.

    Fox was going to lose to Dominion because they 100% knew they were lying about the company, and there were records proving it. It’s not actually common at all for cases regarding defamation against public figures or corporations to go anywhere.

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
      11·
      8 months ago

      You bringing up the Fox News counter-example and claiming it was a one off is kind of self-awarewolf.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’m bringing it up because it was a remarkably rare thing that recently happened.

        The reason Fox lies 50 times a minute is because defamation is incredibly difficult to prove.