Since spreading the “The Big Lie” that The Felon Guy won the 2020 election and other bullshit related to COVID-19, mass shootings, President Biden, or whomever or whatever is their ‘flavor of the month,” RW media has faced a barrage of costly legal battles with more approaching on the horizon. Although we can never stop these shitholes from spreading Fake News and misinformation and other shitholes from regurgitating the bullshit, we can hit them where it hurts the most: their pocketbooks.
In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses:
- The Gateway Pundit, an influential far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy in April in the wake of defamation lawsuits that said the company suggested election workers committed fraud during the previous presidential election.
- Voting machine company Smartmatic reached a confidential settlement in its defamation suit against One America News Network, which allowed false election fraud claims on air, while its pending defamation litigation based on similar vote-rigging allegations continues against Newsmax as well as Fox News, which is being sued for $2.7 billion.
- Both Newsmax and Fox News deny Smartmatic’s allegations.
- Fox News last year paid another company, Dominion Voting Systems, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The network did not admit to any specific claims.
- In May, “2000 Mules,” a book and film by right-wing political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, was pulled by the publisher, Salem Media Group, and the company issued a public apology to a Georgia man who is suing the author and publisher on defamation claims after he was accused of ballot stuffing. That case is still ongoing.
- This week, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones agreed to sell off his assets to satisfy $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones earlier warned his company could shut down.
- Federal prosecutors allege a top executive of The Epoch Times laundered millions of dollars.
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