Suit threatened against Twitter and CNN by Project Veritas

 Epoch Times:

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said on April 25 that he’s filing a defamation lawsuit against CNN after his Twitter account was suspended earlier this month.

O’Keefe has already filed a lawsuit against Twitter after it banned his account, saying the social media platform falsely accused him of operating fake accounts. Twitter alleged he violated its platform manipulation rules, which O’Keefe has denied.

“There are people on Twitter who are impersonating me who still remain on Twitter,” he told Fox News on April 25. “I will depose [CEO Jack Dorsey] under oath. … And tomorrow, I will sue CNN.”

O’Keefe said the lawsuit will be expanded to cover CNN after anchor Ana Cabrera alleged that Project Veritas’ Twitter ban was due to it spreading disinformation.

“Not even Twitter alleges that I was banned, or Project Veritas was banned, for disinformation,” O’Keefe told Fox News. “Every day in this country, people are defamed and lied about constantly, and they don’t have the will, the money, the resources to fight back. So Veritas is going to be the tip of that spear.”

O’Keefe said he’s confident in the lawsuit’s success: “We don’t settle. We fight all the way to a jury verdict, and we’ve never lost.

“We want to put these people through depositions to understand exactly what was going through their minds when they maliciously lied about me, saying I operate fake accounts.”
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Twitter deplatforming seems to fit a leftist political agenda.  I suspect Project Veritas will explore that issue too.  I do think the left sees O'Keefe and his operation as a threat to their preferred narrative.

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