Is election disinformation free speech or defamation? Courts will decide (Roy S. Gutterman)
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
In this March 30, 2020 file photo, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, against Lindell, the founder and CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow, saying that Lindell falsely accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election. AP
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at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
Even though the 2020 election has been sufficiently settled for almost four months, now, and the results have been certified by legislatures and courts, it is still being fought — now in a series of defamation lawsuits.