Pinckney v. Meta

#1

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reido ... -rcna55650

Meta, Russian oligarch sued over Charleston church massacre
Family members of the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney are suing Facebook’s parent company and “Putin’s chef,” claiming they helped radicalize the killer.

[T]]he wife and the daughter of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator who was among nine people killed by a white supremacist in 2015 at a Black church in South Carolina, are suing Meta and a Russian oligarch, claiming they played a role in radicalizing the killer.

The shooter murdered the churchgoers in a hate crime at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after being invited in for Bible study.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks damages from Facebook’s parent company and Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch once charged with interfering in U.S. politics. Prigozhin’s Kremlin-based Internet Research Agency was found to have pumped racist and deceptive ads onto Americans’ Facebook pages in 2015 and 2016 in an effort to sow divisions.

A bipartisan Senate report confirmed the Russian agency’s role leading the disinformation operation, which the Senate panel said aimed to suppress the Black vote, sow racial divisions and help Donald Trump win the White House. Prigozhin, who is known as “Putin’s chef,” was among several Russians charged by the Justice Department in 2018 with interfering in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election. But officials mysteriously dropped the criminal prosecution in 2020.

RTH10260 · #2

The Russian guy, can he still get served or will he flee from a upper story window

#3

Here’s a quote this morning from Prigozhin.

Asked by Russian media about new interference in the midterm elections, Prigozhin replied: “Gentlemen, we interfered. We are interfering and we will interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”
His comments were published by his press service on Russian social media platform VKontakte.
“During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once,” Prigozhin said.

So, yeah. I hope they succeed.

#4

I’d like to see a TV ad or I don’t know what, something that would French reach a lot of people, present all evidence, like Progozhin’s statement, and ask

Don’t you feel like a fool, being played like this? What’s wrong with you?