The chief executive of The New York Times has said the company will “not be cowed” by Donald Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the newspaper and accused the US president of enacting an “anti-press playbook”.
Meredith Kopit Levien described the lawsuit not only as legally baseless, but as part of a campaign to intimidate independent journalism, drawing parallels with authoritarian tactics in countries such as Turkey and Hungary.
“There is an anti-press playbook at this point?.?.?.?If you look at countries like Turkey and Hungary and India, those countries have elections but they also really work to quash opposition to the regime,” Levien said at a Financial Times conference.