Far-right activist group Project Veritas can advance defamation claims against CNN over a journalist’s inaccurate on-air statement about the reason for the group’s suspension from Twitter, an 11th Circuit panel ruled on Thursday.

A federal appeals court panel has reinstated a defamation lawsuit filed by the conservative media watchdog Project Veritas against CNN and remanded the case to a federal trial court in Atlanta. The incident in question took place on Feb.