As Twitchy reported, Rep. Devin Nunes has filed a $250 million lawsuit against Twitter for defamation and for shadow-banning conservatives.
One bit from the Fox News report we missed is that Nunes’ complaint names specific Twitter users who he alleges have defamed him, including political communications strategist Liz Mair, who last summer suggested he’d knowingly invested in a winery that used underage hookers to lure investors.
To be fair, I think the @fresnobee writing up your investment in a winery that allegedly used underage hookers to solicit investment– an allegation you've known about for years, during which you've stayed invested in it, I might add– did surprise you. https://t.co/acMlAXjPP8
— BrandValue$4B (@LizMair) June 23, 2018
Mair has for a while now had a donation box online to fund her work (“If you’d like to stick it to Nunes, go here and donate”), and now she’s hoping people will pitch in for her legal expenses:
Guys, I’m declining comment on this for now but DEVIN NUNES IS SUING ME. If you’d like to contribute to cover my legal expenses please donate here: https://t.co/zcYqrHn6OH
— BrandValue$4B (@LizMair) March 18, 2019
Well?
No thanks. Surely as an expert in comms you can stand by everything you've written and have the evidence immediately to hand. Good luck…
— The Monro (@TheMonro) March 18, 2019
Yeah good luck with that maybe more content and less inuendo next time
— HyperMarketing (@marketing_hyper) March 18, 2019
— Sandy Parker (@RHWOOBsandy) March 18, 2019
Nah – but I am going to buy some popcorn for the show…
— Yep (@Mathum1) March 18, 2019
yeah, uhm, no. go pay for your own legal expenses like a real adult and stop whining about being sued for something you clearly did. better yet, pay your expenses and delete your account, cus nobody cares what you say. moron
— joy ann duran (@joyjoyalegria) March 18, 2019
Well, that went well.
— Sheila Brown (@Sheilabgood) March 18, 2019
— Liz Litterello (@LizziLitt) March 18, 2019
Heres a quater no go cry in a corner
— Jar Head (@6061) March 18, 2019
LOL….yeah, I'll get right on that!
— Ginna Beard (@2RiderBeard) March 18, 2019
I gave mine to big oil. Good luck
— Taylor Lackie (@bluffcitykid) March 18, 2019
I'm out.
— Bob Wagner (@BeachBob578) March 18, 2019
Not in a million years….
— Irish_Matt (@IrishMatt2) March 18, 2019
— John Tyler’s grandchild (@AndreBeenJammin) March 18, 2019
I would rather walk over hot coals then give you one red cent.
— Bonnie Willey (@carefree1945) March 18, 2019
Your comm strategy must not be so great ??♀️
— OSayCanUC?? (@LoveYourFacexo) March 18, 2019
Here is my contribution Liz… pic.twitter.com/6XuRIUnHGH
— Deano Valentino (@deandamachine88) March 18, 2019
You could always just acquire knowledge in the language of a computating apparatus.
— Belt-fed B.S. (@henryscraps) March 18, 2019
— Memuneh (@MemunehMichael) March 18, 2019
Couldn't happen to a better deserving person.
— R (@TkJoMo) March 18, 2019
may you mutually annihilate
— Dr. Obvious (@dickdocpolitics) March 18, 2019
Here's my contribution: pic.twitter.com/FmAvoaNjpX
— Maverick (@AngleOfAttack1) March 18, 2019
LMAO pic.twitter.com/FftDm3EqEI
— Drive for Show (@WintonCapPtnrs) March 18, 2019
Haha hahahaha! Justice will finally be served to you for all the hate and lies you spread! Get a second job because your retirement is gone! #terribleperson
— Drain the Damn Swamp Already! (@Rancher4Trump) March 18, 2019
Hard pass. pic.twitter.com/kapfPcT79A
— Vern Demerest (@TxAv8r) March 18, 2019
— Eddie Smith (@faulknrgreaves) March 18, 2019
So people are aware, this is the defamatory tweet that she's going to get rekt over.https://t.co/JTfCtNNXaF
— Ben Jammin ?? (@xBenJamminx) March 18, 2019
— Eric (@eric_174) March 18, 2019
hoping you totally damage one another
— Smoking Apples (@Apples4Grannies) March 18, 2019
— Ahmed Johnson's Thong (@AhmedsThong) March 18, 2019
You should hire Michael Avanatti! He did wonders for Stormy.
— Reggie Dunlop (@ChiefsRegDunlop) March 18, 2019
Nunes' lawsuit against Twitter basically argues that Twitter does so much to shape content–censorship, shadow-banning, terms of service–that it functions as a de facto content provider.#you lose girlfriend
— Realwomen4Trump (@Realwoman4Trump) March 18, 2019
Like we said in the previous post, federal law usually exempts a platform like Twitter from defamation lawsuits, so we think this might be an uphill battle for Nunes. However, his legal team is claiming that Twitter “created and developed the content at issue in this case by transforming false accusations of criminal conduct, imputed wrongdoing, dishonesty and lack of integrity into a publicly available commodity used by unscrupulous political operatives and their donor/clients as a weapon.”
Suing Twitter and Liz Mair for $200 million is exactly what I'd expect a ding dong like Devin Nunes to do. In the lawsuit he claims that Twitter's failure to police mean memes, among other things, caused him "extreme pain and suffering." GTFOOH, ding dong.
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) March 18, 2019
True … but there are memes and there are false accusations. Anyway, popcorn all around.
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Update:
Also, the complaint seems to be pretending not to know what a taint team is. Or a pun.
Anyway, I thought that one was funny, so here you go. pic.twitter.com/thGGcNCjAD
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) March 18, 2019
Related:
Rep. Devin Nunes files suit against Twitter alleging defamation and shadow-banning https://t.co/iMs1cTRJe9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 18, 2019
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