Gay creator of extremist website sued over false claims & harassment of election workers

[Behind the Aegis]

A far-right website, often criticized for its “fake news” is being sued by two election workers in the state of Georgia for defamation over their supportive coverage and amplification of the 2020 election conspiracies. The Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft — the gay man who founded it — and his brother Joe Holt are being sued by Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, due to the harassment incited by the website and its false allegations that the election was rigged or “stolen.”

Gateway Pundit is known for spreading disinformation so much that it has been banned from Twitter and from advertising or promoting itself via Google. Yet, it remains a consistent top “news” source on Facebook and reaches over 630,000 people via its Facebook Page alone.

The lawsuit was first reported by Reuters, which came days after their investigation that highlighted Moss’s and Freeman’s struggles in light of the far-right disinformation campaign to further push election conspiracy theories. Moss, who was a voter registration officer during the election for Fulton County, Georgia, and Freeman, who was a temporary employee, claim with their suit that the Gateway Pundit‘s repeated “lies” that they are “traitors” and “steal the presidential election in Georgia” has led to irreparable harm to their “devastated” reputation.

The accusation stems from the website’s coverage of a lawyer for the Trump campaign claiming in December that workers for Fulton County, the most-populated county in Georgia that largely went to Joe Biden, that had supposedly bought in “suitcases” of fake votes in favor of Biden.

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