Lawyers in Caylan Ford case allege "anti-hate" expert's "financial interest" leads to bias
Lawyer, Richard Harrison, suggested Dr. Barbara Perry’s “financial interest” in hate-related topics is evidence that she “cannot divulge any opinion that is free from bias.”
A lawyer in the defamation trial of former UCP candidate Caylan Ford against several media outlets questioned whether anti-hate experts such as Dr. Barbara Perry have a financial interest that could bias their testimony.
The allegation, raised during Ford’s $7.65-million lawsuit, goes to the heart of the case: whether academic “hate expertise” used by major media outlets constitutes neutral analysis or an incentivized system that rewards identifying extremism above all else. Perry was called as an expert witness to the trial.
Ford says she is seeking justice seven years after leaked private Facebook messages led to her being falsely labelled a “white supremacist” by left-wing media outlets and upended her life.
