CNN ā€” Salem Media Group, the right-wing talk radio network owner, issued a public apology and said it would stop distributing a discredited 2020 election conspiracy theory film after a Georgia man wrongly accused of voter fraud sued the company for defamation.

The Georgia man, Mark Andrews, said in his 2022 lawsuit that ā€œ2000 Mules,ā€ a film and book by far-right activist Dinesh Dā€™Souza contained a string of bogus claims about the 2020 election, leading to threats of violence against him and his family.

Andrews said the film, which has been repeatedly promoted by Donald Trump and widely circulated in right-wing media as supposed proof that the 2020 election was stolen, had severely damaged his reputation.

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    6 months ago

    Since youā€™re obviously not defending fascist propagandists out of an abstract concern for free speech, I can only conclude that youā€™re doing it because you support their cause.

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      6 months ago

      Since you support jailing people just for making the free speech argument, I assume youā€™re a fascist. So you should be in jail along with your supporters. Itā€™s logic.

      Note that I myself didnā€™t make a free speech argument. The opposite. I suggested someone be jailed for what they think.

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          6 months ago

          They did support jailing people just for making a free speech argument:

          And any of you who say ā€œbut we have to defend free speech even for the Nazisā€ are equally culpable and should join them in prison [ā€¦]

          If you donā€™t feel the same way thatā€™s great.