The porn saga of North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is modern lawfare in a nutshell
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RGTM)
Photo by Grant Baldwin / Getty Images I'm honestly not sure which part of North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson's freshly filed defamation lawsuit to focus on here.
The obvious lede is that Robinson - currently the Republican nominee for North Carolina governor - sued CNN for defamation yesterday. The suit targets the network for publishing meticulously documented allegations that Robinson made a series of bizarre and frequently bigoted comments on a porn forum called Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012, including referring to himself as a black NAZI" (capitalization in original).
Robinson's lawsuit claims someone likely impersonated him using information from data breaches, which is certainly possible - but based on the evidence would require a remarkably complex...