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Chobani Is Suing Infowars Radio Host Alex Jones
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:19:46 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
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>Janet B. wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> The result is the following lawsuit:
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>> 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."
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>> 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
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>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...
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>PS: and I *do* like his product...
Yeah, and that's why these guys get away with it
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