U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro Wednesday granted BuzzFeed Inc.’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed by Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev over the news outlet’s publication of the Steele dossier.

Ungaro said BuzzFeed satisfied its “burden as to each element of the fair report privilege” and that “summary judgment is appropriate.”

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