Janet B. wrote:

> Alex Jones is the ultra-ultra conservative, right wing fellow who
> used his radio show and wrote 'news' stories about Clinton running a
> child sex ring out of a specific pizza store. He is now publishing "
> sex news' about Chobani. I am sure that Alex Jones had his eye caught
> by the following article and decided to do something nasty about it.
>
> This article relates that the CEO and Founder of Chobani (himself an
> immigrant) was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential
> people in the world and praised him for hiring immigrants.
> http://www.kmvt.com/content/news/Cho...419979703.html
>
> The result is the following lawsuit:
>
> From Fortune magazine:
> "Chobani has filed a lawsuit against right-wing radio host Alex Jones
> and his website, Infowars.com, after a video was published earlier in
> April that strongly alluded to a link between the yogurt maker's
> practice of hiring refugees with a local Idaho sexual assault case.
> While the video report by Infowars reports David Knight and Lee Ann
> Mcadoo is somewhat vague in linking the sexual assault case with
> Chobani's hiring practices, the headline on the Infowars video "MSM
> [mainstream media] Covers For Globalist's Refugee Import Program After
> Child Rape Case" and the piece by Infowars reporters David Knight and
> Lee Ann McAdoo strongly hints at links between Chobani's work force
> and the local sexual assault case. Jones also tweeted the story to his
> 610,000 Twitter followers on April 11, the date it was published.
> Chobani says the sexual assault case is in no way linked to the
> company's work force.
> Jones and Infowars published "false statements, including the false
> accusations that Chobani was 'caught importing migrant rapists' and
> that Chobani's plant has brought 'crime and tuberculosis' to the Twin
> Falls community," said Chobani in the company's lawsuit, which was
> filed in a district court in Idaho. "Defendants' defamatory statements
> were subsequently republished with great velocity on a wide range of
> websites."
>
> Chobani claims that the video published by Infowars and promoted by
> Jones was designed to discourage consumers from purchasing Chobani's
> products, harm the Greek yogurt purveyor's reputation, and also
> adversely affect its business interests.
> In fact, Chobani-which is the largest yogurt brand in the U.S.-says
> calls for a boycott did begin to swirl in the wake of the video's
> publication. A hashtag, #boycottChobani, appeared on Twitter following
> the video.
> "The Defendants' defamatory statements have caused and continue to
> cause harm to Idaho residents, including Chobani employees, their
> families, and other members of the Twin Falls community associated
> with Chobani," the company said.
> Representatives at Infowars were unable to immediately respond to the
> litigation."
> This article was originally published on FORTUNE.com


Chobani should stop being such a big pussy, he just draws more negative attention to hisself by acknowledging this sort of wacko bat shit stuff...

PS: and I *do* like his product...


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Best
Greg