Case 0:17-cv-60426-UU Document 169 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/04/2018 Page 18 of 22 are the signature characteristic of the World Wide Web. . . . Both creation and use of hyperlinks are relatively simple tasks . . . .”); Porismita Borah, The Hyperlinked World: A Look at How the Interactions of New Frames and Hyperlinks Influence News Credibility and Willingness to Seek Information, 19 J. of Computer–Mediated Comm. 576, 579 (2014) (“On an individual level, hyperlinks can help readers understand an issue in depth; can provide an element of interactivity for the reader and can also increase the user’s ability to control the information-seeking process.”) (internal quotations and citations omitted). Accordingly, the Court follows Adelson and rules that BuzzFeed can satisfy the fair report privilege by conspicuously hyperlinking to the CNN article. The hyperlink here is conspicuous. It appears in the body of the Article, within the words “CNN reported,” which are written in blue. See D.E. 1-2, p. 20. Thus, when BuzzFeed published the Dossier, it explained (via the hyperlink) that the Dossier was the subject of official actions in the form of classified briefings by four intelligence directors to the President and President-elect, and an FBI investigation. Plaintiffs next argue that even if there was official action, the Article does not state that there was any official action about the specific allegations in the Dossier relating to them. This is incorrect. The Dossier alleges that Plaintiffs were part of a cyber-operations scheme coordinated, at least in part, by Michael Cohen and the FSB. The Article includes a statement from Michael Cohen denying all of the allegations in the Dossier. Meanwhile, the hyperlinked CNN article reports that the classified briefings concerned allegations about communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Thus, the official action as described would appear to include the allegations about Plaintiffs. Regardless, it would undermine the privilege to require that one who reports on official action tie every specific allegation in the report to a 18

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