Judge Rules Conspiracy Theorists Can be Sued For Peddling Conspiracy Lies
 

"A federal judge ruled Friday that Alex Jones and other online conspiracy peddlers cannot dismiss a defamation suit alleging that they invented damaging smears"

Judge Rules Conspiracy Theorists Can be Sued For Peddling Conspiracy Lies

Judge Rules Conspiracy Theorists Can be Sued For Peddling Conspiracy Lies

A federal judge ruled Friday that Alex Jones and other online conspiracy peddlers cannot dismiss a defamation suit alleging that they invented damaging smears about a counter-protester at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.

“Victims of vile conspiracy theories should take comfort in Judge Moon’s ruling that Brennan Gilmore’s defamation suit against InfoWars must proceed,” Andrew Mendrala, an attorney with Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights Clinic, which helped bring the case, said in a statement. “Today’s decision shows that the law will protect victims of baseless lies by holding people like Alex Jones accountable for the harm they cause.”

Gilmore sued Jones, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and several other far-right publishers for falsely labeling him as a “deep state” operative. They claimed that a video he captures and posted online of white supremacist Alex James Fields ramming his car into Heather Heyer was part of an elaborate, staged plot to undermine the Trump administration.

The defendants requested that the lawsuit be thrown out, claiming they were simply exercising their First Amendment right to share theories and opinions about the incident. But in Friday’s ruling, Judge Norman Moon of Virginia’s Western District agreed with Gilmore that they knowingly published these false stories “with actual malice.”

Gilmore was a foreign service officer on leave at the time of the rally, and had previously donated to Democratic politicians. Far-right sites used these details as the basis to declare that he was a paid undercover operative helping to carry out an anti-Trump coup. Jones definitively stated that Gilmore was “high-level CIA,” had helped coordinate the chaos at Charlottesville, and that George Soros was paying him $320,000 a year.

Suck ya mother

Can't wait for Rush Limbaugh to be sued now that this precedent has been made :thumbsup He's one of the worst conspiracy poison spreaders in America

DUMBFUCK

YOU have been spreading the Russia HOAX for 2 years.

Eat a herpes-infested dick.

:pimp

You're lucky you don't live in America or you would be getting sued weekly. :2 cents:

So you can be sued now for expressing your opinion that something is a hoax?

That's nice

Let me guess it was a Liberal Judge.

↑↑↑ New alt-right hate fake nic blocked :thumbsup

For what, triggering dumb libs with too many facts??

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li·bel
/ˈlībəl/
noun
noun: libel; plural noun: libels

1. Law
a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
synonyms: defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, calumny, misrepresentation, scandalmongering; More

Maddow is fucked

Again, please set aside your Gay related sexual fantasies on GFY keep those to our Skype sessions

There is a difference between stating your opinion and harassing victims.

Free speech isn't absolute speech. When the shit you say damages other people, you may be held accountable for it.

Looks like Adam Schiff better worry then.

Jones didn't do any of that. He is correct, the dude was high level State Department. It's a frivolous lawsuit.

It's so frivolous Jones only defense is he's a psychotic whack job. :1orglaugh

Is that also your excuse?

Alex Jones blames “psychosis” for his Sandy Hook conspiracies

bladewires

No dumb fuck you can be sued for liable because you spread lies about someone which causes them undo harm.. Suck it up buttercup. I hope they get a landslide of lawsuits against all these conspiracy nutters trying to ruin people's lives..

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THat's not very nice.


No that's not what the Judge said. The first line of the article says "A federal judge ruled Friday that Alex Jones and other online conspiracy peddlers cannot dismiss a defamation suit alleging that they invented damaging smears about a counter-protester at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally."

And lets be real. He called parents of victims actors. And he said a whole lot worse. Conspiracy theories can be fun and interesting sometimes but Jones took this to a whole new level. He made the pain worse for a lot of people and profited from their pain at the same time.

Here are his depositions


What a fucking flaming piece of shit he is. He deserves to lose everything x 10.