An indigenous Brazilian tribe has sued the New York Times over a report which claimed they had become addicted to porn after Elon Musk's Starlink system gave them high-speed internet access.
The Marubo tribe from the remote Javari valley, who existed in small huts scattered along the Itui River for hundreds of years, filed a defamation lawsuit seeking at least £133million ($180million) in damages this week at a Los Angeles Court.
It also names TMZ and Yahoo as defendants, alleging their stories amplified and sensationalised the report for The Times and further tarnished the 2,000-member tribe.
The suit claims the June 2024 NYT story by reporter Jack Nicas on how the tribe reacted to the satellite service introduction 'portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations their youth had become consumed by pornography'.
An amended version of the lawsuit filed on Thursday said the statements were 'not only inflammatory but conveyed to the average reader that the Marubo people had descended into moral and social decline as a direct result of internet access'.
