{"id":1936065,"date":"2023-05-23T07:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-social-media-company-files-3-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:15:14","slug":"trumps-social-media-company-files-3-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-social-media-company-files-3-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s social media firm sues Washington Post for $3 billion over defamation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-social-media-company-files-3-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump&#8217;s Social Media Company Seeks $3.78 Billion in Defamation Lawsuit Against The Washington Post<\/h2>\n<h3>Truth Social Owner Accuses The Post of Causing &#8220;Enormous&#8221; Loss<\/h3>\n<p>Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the owner of Truth Social, has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post seeking $3.78 billion in damages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-sues-amazon-over-alleged-worker-exploitation-amid-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Sues Amazon Over Alleged Worker \u2018Exploitation\u2019 Amid Pandemic\">lawsuit accuses<\/a> The Post of publishing an &#8220;egregious hit piece&#8221; that accused TMTG of securities fraud and other wrongdoings, causing an &#8220;enormous&#8221; loss and creating an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>. The lawsuit claims that The Post published nine false claims and circulated the misinformation to its 2.5 million subscribers and 20 million Twitter followers. The article alleged a series of accusations involving a bank in the Caribbean islands that offered $8 million in loans to TMTG. The lawsuit says The Post engaged agents from both within and outside the company to broadly republish the defamation. A spokesperson for The Post declined to comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Trump launched Truth Social last year as an alternative to Twitter and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/businessman-kevin-oleary-defends-free-speech-online\/\" title=\"Businessman Kevin O\u2019Leary defends free speech online\">social media platforms<\/a> for conservative users who said they were censored and discriminated against for their political views. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-social-media-company-files-3-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post\/\" title=\"Trump's social media firm sues Washington Post for  billion over defamation.\">legacy media outlet published<\/a> the online article headlined, &#8220;Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump&#8217;s Truth Social&#8221; on May 13, 2023, which stated TMTG failed to disclose key details about a proposed merger to the Securities and Exchange Commission and shareholders. The lawsuit claims that the clickbait headline of the article falsely insinuated that TMTG was involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gravy-train-keeps-rolling-for-second-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff\/\" title=\"Gravy Train Keeps Rolling for Second Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff\">shady business dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Social&#8217;s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is suing The Washington Post for $3.78 billion in damages over a recent article that accused the company of securities fraud and other misconduct. The lawsuit claims that the article was a defamatory &#8220;hit piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1936066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9142,5246,4188,4899,5127,5178,3794,4086],"class_list":["post-1936065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-defamation","tag-firm","tag-media","tag-post","tag-social","tag-sues","tag-trumps","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}