Editing WorldNetDaily (section)

== Litigation ==
===Clark Jones libel lawsuit (2000–2008)===
On September 20, 2000, WND published an article saying that Clark Jones, a [[Savannah, Tennessee]] car dealer, a fund-raiser for then-Vice President [[Al Gore]] in his presidential campaign, had interfered with a criminal investigation, had been a "subject" of a criminal investigation, and was listed on law enforcement computers as a "dope dealer". It implied that he had ties to others involved in alleged criminal activity. The authors later put forward the theory that the publication of this article, as well as other ''WND'' articles that were critical of Gore, contributed significantly to Gore losing his home state of Tennessee that November.

In 2001, Clark Jones filed a [[lawsuit]] against WND; the reporters, Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays; the [[Center for Public Integrity]], which had underwritten Thompson and Hays' reporting on the article and related ones; and various Tennessee publications and broadcasters whom he accused of repeating the claim, arguing these entities had committed libel and [[defamation]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Gordon, J. Houston |author2=Hopper, Curtis F. |url=http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/graphics/wndlawsuitdocs/jonessuit.pdf |title=Second Amended Complaint |date=December 20, 2004 |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318223104/http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/graphics/wndlawsuitdocs/jonessuit.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite court |litigants=Jones v. WorldNetDaily |url=http://www.dmlp.org/threats/jones-v-worldnetdaily |date=April 2001 |court=Tenn. Cir. (Hardin); Tenn. App.; Tenn. |quote=The parties settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2008. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601105447/http://www.dmlp.org/threats/jones-v-worldnetdaily |url-status=live }}</ref> The lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial in March 2008; but, on February 13, 2008, WND announced that a confidential out-of-court settlement had been reached with Jones. A settlement statement jointly drafted by all parties in the lawsuit stated that a [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] request showed that the allegations had been false, and that WND had misquoted sources.