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Shareholders of The New York Times Company filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court on Wednesday, demanding internal records that show how the board oversees editorial standards and fact-checking.
The petition was filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida and the National Center for Public Policy Research, which argue that the paper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war reveals a failure in corporate governance.
The plaintiffs claim that The New York Times has a history of "materially false or baseless factual assertions." They cite a peer-reviewed study published in 2024, which found that the newspaper admitted to 72 errors in its coverage between October 2023 and June 2024.
Of those errors, 48 concerned Israel. The petition states that corrections for these errors were often late, vague, or evasive.
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