Groups increasingly use defamation law to ward off US election subversion
by Ed Pilkington in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6GFPD)
Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow's Mike Lindell are among election deniers sued for defamatory statements regarding 2020 election
Groups seeking to protect US democracy from a renewed threat of subversion in the presidential race next year wield a new weapon against Donald Trump and his accomplices: the little-used law of defamation.
Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the My Pillow CEO, Mike Lindell, and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza are among the individuals named in a spate of high-profile defamation cases targeting those who tried to overturn the 2020 election. Prominent rightwing media outlets such as Fox News and Gateway Pundit are also on the hook.
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