If you havent seen the compilation video here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVufYXaGg8
He’s being sued because he used publicly available credentials to login to a fox streaming site and recorded the videos of Ye West saying antisemitic things on the Tucker Carlson interview that was cut from the broadcasted version. https://timburkelegalfund.org/ Has more information
It’s in the public interest that journalists have special protection for illegally obtained information.
Imagine if Julian Assange was persecuted for whistleblowing on all the illegal shit the gov’t was doing. Oh wait.
Possessing illegally obtained information is completely different from illegally obtaining information though. Publishing documents given to you by an insider or a whistleblower is not the same thing as breaking in to a system and taking documents