Dominion's lawsuit against MyPillow guy CEO includes a lengthy section about how his OAN "docu-movie" features that weird guy who keeps insisting he invented email businessinsider.com/dominion-sues-…
aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
There's pages and pages of screenshots of people who say they bought pillows from Lindell because of his false election claims
Apparently Tucker Carlson once called MyPillow "the most successful sleep product in the history of sleep."
The sheer grift
I love this citation
Oh yeah, Dominion is absolutely going to sue OAN next
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"Lindell — a talented salesman and former professional card counter — sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows," Dominion lawyer Tom Clare wrote.
"I lost 20 retailers, and it's cost me $65 million this year," Lindell told me.
The lawsuit paints a portrait of Lindell using the election conspiracy theory to boost his pillow business: advertising on far-right media outlets, conspiratorial discount codes, and pages of social media posts from conspiracy-mongering customers.
BBC got a copy of Anna Sorokin's contract with Netflix. It was signed just 11 days after @jpressler's story in The Cut went viral. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
The story also confirms that HBO is doing a documentary about her, which frees me up to say: No I'm not in the doc, and yes I'm mad about it.
It's kind of funny that, after everything Rachel Williams went through, it all came down to successfully winning a credit card dispute bbc.com/news/world-us-…
SCOOP: Trump-ally media outlet OAN quietly deleted articles about Dominion Voting Systems despite publicly doubling down on election conspiracy theories businessinsider.com/oan-deletes-ar…
If you look at the "Dominion Voting Systems" category tag on OAN's website, there's just one story.
SCOOP: Dominion sent document preservation letters warning of "imminent" defamation litigation to individual right-wing media figures, including Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and Maria Bartiromo. businessinsider.com/dominion-defam…
Officials finally found a case of a dead person voting, and it was a Republican pretending to be his dead mom to vote for Trump businessinsider.com/voter-election…
I interviewed the attorney representing the guy who pretended to be his dead mom to illegally vote for Trump. He said his client was attempting "civil disobedience." businessinsider.com/why-pennsylvan…
The attorney, Samuel Stretton, told me that Bruce Bartman plans to plead guilty once they're through with initial hearings.
SCOOP: I got a copy of the letter voting technology company Smartmatic sent to Fox News, demanding retractions for election conspiracy theories. It accuses Fox of "a concerted disinformation campaign" that's led to death threats against its employees. businessinsider.com/smartmatic-vot…
The Smartmatic letter names Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Maria Bartiromo as individuals who spread the conspiracy theories. A spokesperson told me that suing them individually is an option on the table. businessinsider.com/smartmatic-vot…
"This retraction must be done with the same intensity and level of coverage that you used to defame the company in the first place." businessinsider.com/smartmatic-vot…