A settlement has been reached in a $30 million lawsuit against NBC and MSNBC.
In Sept 2020, before people would be going to the polls in the 2020 Presidential election they ran with an unverified "whistleblower" allegation that an individual, who they labeled as the "uterus collector", was performing unnecessary mass hysterectomies on immigrant women in a Georgia ICE detention facility.
2 medically necessary hysterectomies, 1 due to cancer, had been performed.
"And the reporters who wrote the story — Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley — shared concerns.
It doesn’t “sound like they have much beyond the complaint,” Soboroff texted Ainsley in September, according to court documents.
“Only two hysterectomies?” Ainsley reportedly replied."
Christopher Scholl was the NBC standards deputy.
"“She [the whistleblower] has no direct knowledge of what she’s claiming, is unable to name the doctor involved (if I understood correctly), and we are unable to verify any of it or determine whether there really is a story here,” Scholl said in an email. “Essentially, it boils down to a single source — with an agenda — telling us things we have no basis to believe are true.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/rachel-maddow-other-msnbc-hosts-face-30m-defamation-trial-from-ice-doctor-they-called-uterus-collector/ar-BB1pOCAmThe journalists gonna journalism agenda was obviously 2020 Presidential election votes.
Rachel Maddow's Sept 15, 2020 transcript can be found here.
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-september-15-2020-n1260125MSNBC terminates, of course, Joy Reid.