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Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-shareholders-sue-new-york-times-biased-israel-reporting
New York Times Sued by Shareholders over Biased Israel Coverage
(Free Press) Maya Sulkin - Shareholders of the New York Times filed a lawsuit on Wednesday arguing that the paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn't. The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), asks a judge to force the Times board of directors to hand over internal records the company has refused to produce for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. The suit includes the testimony from a whistleblower, a former Times employee who is Jewish and spent nearly a decade on the paper's video desk. According to the suit, the whistleblower raised concerns about antisemitism and anti-Israel bias at least 15 separate times between 2019 and her March 2026 departure, using every channel the company makes available to employees. In the immediate aftermath of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, staffers on the video desk spent weeks searching for evidence that Hamas did not use the tunnels beneath al-Shifa Hospital, even after the Israeli military released its own footage of the tunnels in November 2023. Since Oct. 7, the Times has been plagued by allegations of anti-Israel bias in its coverage. In one of numerous examples, a Sep. 15, 2026, Times article referred to Sharif Labad, who was killed in a drone strike, as "a Civil Defense rescue service worker," and made no mention of the fact that the Israel Defense Forces identified him as a member of the Hamas Nukhba force who invaded Israel on Oct. 7.