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Appeals Court Tosses Devin Nunes’ Suit Against CNN

First, a reminder on what happened back in March: A Florida judge has tossed Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN and one of its anchors, saying that the former congressman filed it in the wrong state. Nunes, who left Congress in 2022 to become the chief executive of former President Donald Trump’s media company, was suing CNN and Jake Tapper over …

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Truth Social Files $3.78B Defamation Suit Against WaPo

The Deep Dive reports: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) filed a lawsuit in a Florida civil court against The Washington Post, allegedly claiming the media outfit defamed the company in one of its articles. The firm is seeking $3.78 billion in damages. The news firm allegedly “published an egregious hit piece that falsely accused TMTG of securities fraud and …

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Devin Nunes Welcomed To QAnon Tour With Rap Song

First, an earlier report from Media Matters: Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman and the CEO of former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, appeared on a QAnon-supporting show to promote Trump’s platform and repeatedly lauded the show for “getting the truth out.” On April 14, Nunes appeared on QAnon show X22 Report, whose host is known only …

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Devin Nunes Loses Yet Another Defamation Lawsuit

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge in Iowa threw out former California GOP Congressman Devin Nunes’ defamation suit against political reporter Ryan Lizza on Tuesday, the latest of multiple setbacks the four-year-old case has suffered. Nunes has pursued a legal vendetta against Lizza, currently Politico’s chief Washington correspondent, and his former employer Hearst Magazines since September 2019. The case stems …

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Judge Rules Devin Nunes Can Sue NBC For Defamation

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Monday said Devin Nunes, the former California congressman and an ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, can sue NBCUniversal for defamation over a comment by Rachel Maddow concerning his relationship with a suspected Russian agent. Without ruling on the merits, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said Nunes “plausibly allege[d] actual malice” …

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Nunes Blames Dems For Attack On Paul Pelosi [VIDEO]

Newsweek reports: Former Republican Representative Devin Nunes, who is now CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group, spoke to Newsmax on Friday about the attack on Pelosi’s home and condemned it, but Nunes also said he’d been a victim of “these raging lunatics.” “Where were the Democrats and Pelosi when people were outside my home with my young daughters …

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Nunes: “Stuff Was Planted” At Mar-A-Lago [VIDEO]

“I think that’s another really important point that shouldn’t be lost on the American people today, and that is that they convened a grand jury against the former president of the United States. “And they went into the grand jury looking at the president for treason as if he really was holding these documents, these so-called classified documents. “We even …

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Musk: Nunes Lied About Trump Pushing Twitter Buy

Variety reports: Devin Nunes, the former congressman who is now CEO of Donald Trump’s social-media rival to Twitter, claimed that his new boss “encouraged” tech mogul Elon Musk to acquire Twitter, to “take on these tech tyrants.” Musk says that’s false. “I’ve had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on …

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Devin Nunes: Trump Encouraged Musk To Buy Twitter

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump quietly “encouraged” Elon Musk’s takeover of social media giant Twitter ahead of the $44 billion deal, according to the boss of his own social-media app Truth Social. “President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said to go and buy it because the goal of our company is really to build a …

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Trump’s Truth Social Faked Its Infamous Wait List

Stand by for Devin Nunes to sue over this: Searching “truth social waitlist” on Twitter finds many people lamenting they had waited for a month or more and their waitlist numbers were not changing. Needless to say, that’s not how a waitlist should work; as new users were added, people should have steadily moved up in the list, not stayed …

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Nunes Loses Appeal In Defamation Suit Against CNN

Reuters reports: A federal appeals court said Devin Nunes, the former California congressman and an ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, cannot revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over reports he was involved in efforts to uncover damaging Ukraine-related information about Joe Biden. In a 2-1 decision on Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said …

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Fox News: Truth Social Faked Verified Fox Account

Axios reports: Just days after a verified account for Fox News appeared on former President Trump’s social media app, Truth Social, a Fox News spokesperson says the network has nothing to do with the account. Investors clearly would have viewed Fox News’ participation as a boon for the struggling app. Shares of the blank-check company taking Truth Social public spiked …

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Nunes: Truth Social Is Beating “Ghost Town” Twitter

The Daily Beast reports: Truth Social CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling on Thursday morning, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up. “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town,” Nunes declared. “There’s not very much activity over …

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Special Election Planned For Disappearing House Seat

Courthouse News Service reports: On April 5, voters in California’s 22nd Congressional District, located in California’s Central Valley, will head to the polls for a special primary election to determine who replaces longtime congressman Devin Nunes. If no candidate wins a majority of the votes the contest will head to a runoff on June 7, the day of the statewide …

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Truth Social Craters In New Signups And Traffic

The Wrap reports: Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues and an extensive waiting list for new signups to actually use the service. After going live on President’s Day, the Twitter-lookalike app saw installs decline by more …

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Truth Social Finally Comments About Disastrous Launch

Just in via email: Hey Fellow Truthsayer! Thank you for signing up for TRUTH Social! We appreciate your eagerness to join our fight against Big Tech censorship and want to provide you with a quick update. We are steadily welcoming new users from our temporary waitlist onto TRUTH Social for iOS. This phased rollout allows us to identify and remedy …

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Devin Nunes Loses Umpteenth Defamation Lawsuit

Law & Crime reports: The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday denied Devin Nunes a chance to appeal a lower court ruling in a long-running defamation feud with Republican strategist Liz Mair. The upshot of the ruling is that Nunes’s efforts to sue Mair, years in the making, have ended with a whimper. The Republican former San Joauqin Valley congressional Representative …

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Axios: Trump’s Truth Social Is Continuing To Bomb

Axios reports: The vast majority of people downloading the app, me included, were given a waitlist number. Nine days later, most of us remain on that waitlist, with our number unchanged and without a word of communication from the company. A waitlist “refresh” icon doesn’t work. The former president is Truth Social’s founder and chairman, so he obviously bears some …

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Truth Social Bans Account For Mocking Devin Nunes

CNET reports: Former US President Donald Trump’s recently launched app Truth Social has reportedly banned a user for trying to make an account called @DevinNunesCow, despite Trump positioning the social network as a bulwark against censorship. The account’s handle referred to Trump Media and Technology Group CEO and former US representative Devin Nunes. It seemed to be inspired by the …

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Trump Platform To Feature “Family-Friendly” Censors

Fox Business reports: When TRUTH Social launches later this quarter, the Trump Media & Technology Group social media platform will already have stringent content moderation practices in place to ensure it is a “family-friendly” online community, company CEO Devin Nunes told Fox Business. Those involved in the final stages of the platform’s development told Fox Business that they anticipate that …

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