TL;DR
The company that rates news credibility survived a motion to dismiss in its lawsuit against the administration — the case moves to discovery.
MSM Perspective
Reuters Legal reported the procedural development without editorial framing.
X Perspective
X's press freedom community called the survival of the motion to dismiss a 'small but real win for the credibility infrastructure.'
A federal judge in the District of Columbia denied the government's motion to dismiss NewsGuard's lawsuit on Friday, allowing the company's claims to proceed to discovery. NewsGuard alleges that the administration orchestrated a campaign to defund and discredit the company in retaliation for its credibility ratings of partisan news sites. [1]
Discovery begins in May. The depositions of administration officials who communicated about NewsGuard are where the story will advance.
-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin