[HN Gopher] Election conspiracist Mike Lindell must pay $5M to e...
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       Election conspiracist Mike Lindell must pay $5M to expert who
       proved him wrong
        
       Author : goodwink
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-04-20 22:21 UTC (41 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | paulpauper wrote:
       | This guy personifies everything wrong with social media; it gives
       | loudest voices to the most obnoxious or wrong. Second, audience
       | capture and sunk costs creates an incentive to be more extreme,
       | to dig in even when proven wrong.
        
         | bediger4000 wrote:
         | Lindell has plenty of chances to turn back, to renounce
         | falsehoods and embrace truths. But he insisted on being an
         | Argument from Authority personified. If anyone deserves to be
         | penalized, Mike Lindell does.
        
       | AnimalMuppet wrote:
       | In arbitration. Now he's saying he'll take it to court. Depending
       | on how the arbitration clause was written, he may not find that
       | easy to do. If he does take it to court, well, IANAL, but I doubt
       | he'll find it easy to get the arbitrator's decision overturned.
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       | Past that, he could either refuse to pay, or declare bankruptcy.
       | Both have legal downsides; both also rather strongly damage his
       | public image. (Of course, if he cared about his public image, he
       | would have gotten off this road a long time ago...)
        
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