Quote (bogie160 @ Jul 24 2020 04:58pm)
That lawsuit sounds like it was written by someone in PaRD. loooooooool
For relevant information about people wondering about the defamation:
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51. On January 19, 20 and 21, the Post ignored the truth and falsely accused
Nicholas of, among other things, “accost[ing]” Phillips by “suddenly swarm[ing]” him in
a “threaten[ing]” and “physically intimidat[ing]” manner as Phillips “and other activists
were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave,” “block[ing]” Phillips path, refusing
to allow Phillips “to retreat,” “taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd,” chanting “build
that wall,” “Trump2020,” or “go back to Africa,” and otherwise engaging in racist and
improper conduct which ended only “when Phillips and other activists walked away
54. At 11:13 p.m. on January 18, 2019, @2020fight, a fake Twitter account with
a following of approximately 41,000, tweeted a 1 minute 1 second clip from the Taitano
Videos with the comment “This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American
protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March.” (the “2020fight Video”).
55. The 2020fight Video, alone, is reported as having been viewed at least
2,500,000 million times, retweeted 14,000 times, and liked 27,000 times before the
account was suspended by Twitter no later than January 21.
56. Snapshots of the 2020fight video show it to have been viewed at least 10.6
million times.
57. According to media reports, the @2020fight account was created in
December 2016, tweeted an average of 130 times a day, and was suspicious for its high
follower count, unusually high rate of tweets, highly polarized and yet inconsistent
political messaging, and the use of someone else’s image in the profile photo.
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58. In fact, as acknowledged by the Post on January 23, the @2020fight account
was likely a fraudulent account available for sale on Shoutcart.com.
59. By January 23, the Post conceded that the @2020fight account that was
largely responsible for the edited video going viral on social media may have been
purchased from Shoutcart.com for that specific purpose.
60. With no investigation into the @2020fight account, the Post actively,
negligently, and recklessly participated in making the 2020fight Video go viral on social
media when on January 19 at 9:21 a.m., Post reporter Joe Heim re-posted the 2020fight
Video.
61. The Post was the one of the first, if not the first, mainstream media outlet to
expand coverage of the January 18 incident from social media to mainstream media.
62. Post reporter Heim was given credit for contributing to the Post’s first
online article within approximately four (4) hours of his retweet of the 2020fight Video
and was listed on the by-line in the Post’s first print article, along with Antonio Olivo and
Cleve R. Wootson, Jr.
The actual article pieces are in "Exhbits D and E" in the case, but they're not included in this lawsuit link.
This post was edited by Handcuffs on Jul 24 2020 06:25pm