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Sonofnewo has been relentless on the media and government untruths around the staged Charlottesville, VA protest against the right wing folks. In his last two videos, he doesn't appear in them to say anything. There are just some repostings of Brennan Gilmore who changed his public story recently. Sonofnewo also indicates that Brennan Gilmore has filed a lawsuit without saying whether Gilmore named him in the suit.

The media reports that Brennan Gilmore is suing Alex Jones and InfoWars.

How one American attacked by far-right trolls is fighting back
The story reads like a deep state narrative, since sonofnewo demonstrates that Brennan Gilmore did indeed lie, and has changed his story.

Man Who Witnessed Charlottesville Violence Sues Alex Jones Over Conspiracy Theories
Apparently, Brennan Gilmore wants to silence Alex Jones, because some people other than Alex Jones might send him threatening emails, or something.

New Lawsuit Reveals Challenges Of Taking ‘Fake News’ Peddlers To Court

The lawsuit comes not long after some of those same sites falsely dismissed the student activists who survived the Parkland school massacre as “crisis actors,” and at a time of broader concern about the growing, destructive influence of fake news.

Talking points memo is clearly defending CNN prepping the students from Parkland high school on what to say. Obviously, that stunt backfired on CNN badly. Now the left is trying to silence the people who are outing them. I don't think it's going to work.

Brennan Gilmore hopes so. A counter-protester at the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Gilmore has brought a defamation suit against InfoWars, Gateway Pundit and other right-wing conspiracy-peddling sites that he says smeared his reputation.

The lawsuit comes not long after some of those same sites falsely dismissed the student activists who survived the Parkland school massacre as “crisis actors,” and at a time of broader concern about the growing, destructive influence of fake news.

But the hurdles the suit appears to face speak to the challenges of using the courts to hold fake news purveyors accountable.

In a complaint put together by lawyers at the Georgetown Law School’s Civil Rights Center and filed in federal court Tuesday, Gilmore claims false stories saying he was part of a “deep state” plot to undermine the Trump administration by staging the murder of anti-racist activist Heather Heyer have led to threats to his personal safety and caused potential damage to his career.

Gilmore, a foreign service officer on long-term unpaid leave, became a target after sharing on Twitter a video he’d captured from the rally, showing neo-Nazi James Fields’ car ramming into a crowd, injuring dozens and killing Heyer.

Long-term unpaid leave? For what? So that he can go to protests? This guy just seems fishy.

Gilmore told TPM he won’t settle for any amount of money, and wants his case to set a precedent. His goal, he said, is “to try and prevent someone else who is in my shoes to be victim to the same type of predation that Alex Jones and his fellow conspiracy theorists directed to me.”

That makes it all the more fishy. Who is paying the lawyers to work on behalf of Gilmore?

“They knew what they were saying was false and they made no attempt to verify anything,”Andrew Mendrala, supervising attorney of Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights Clinic, told TPM. “[They were] putting this out there with the intention of smearing him and unleashing their followers to sort of carry that out in real life.”

Sonofnewo made more than a good faith attempt to establish what he was saying.

Beyond defamation, the case aims to hold the creators of false online content responsible for their followers’ responses to that content.

First, he would have to prove what someone like sonofnewo said was false. Clearly Gilmore lied to the press. So his credibility is in question. Second, holding a first person responsible for the actions of a second person is a pretty far-fetched legal theory unless there was some sort of subornation or inducement.