A federal judge in Florida allowed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the BBC to proceed on Nov. 10, according to Reuters and Bloomberg Law. The dispute centers on how the BBC’s Panorama documentary edited Trump’s speech from Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump challenges the way the 2024 documentary presented excerpts of the speech. The BBC asked the court to dismiss the case and argued that the disputed edit did not air in the United States. That argument puts the difference between the UK broadcast and the international version at the center of a question about how documentary edits reach audiences across borders.

The ruling keeps the lawsuit alive. Whether the edit was defamatory and whether the BBC owes damages remain unresolved.

A question for the next stage is how the court treats the different versions of the documentary and the evidence of where each version was available. The BBC’s dismissal motion lays out its position on distribution.

Sources: Reuters · Bloomberg Law · BBC’s dismissal motion · Federal case docket