Dave Fanning sues website for using his picture in sex misconduct case about another broadcaster

Court believes the image may have been included after an AI programme used to collect and aggregate news stories failed to function properly

Dave Fanning: Article makes seriously false and damaging claims about him.

RTÉ DJ Dave Fanning has launched defamation proceedings against a Hong Kong news site and Microsoft over the publication of his picture alongside an article stating that a different Irish broadcaster had gone on trial for alleged sexual misconduct.

The article was published by an online news network entity called BNN on October 11 last, accompanied by Mr Fanning's image, entitled "Prominent Irish Broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct".