The Wall Street Journal, a Dow Jones company, argues Binance’s March 2026 defamation complaint should be dismissed for failure to plead the newspaper acted with actual malice when it published three articles detailing Binance’s supposed obstruction of efforts to prevent illegal transactions, retaliation against compliance personnel, dismantling of internal investigations, weakening of cooperation with law enforcement, and knowingly permitting sanctioned Iranian entities to transact on its platform.