Socialist Hasan Piker is suing conservative counterpart for ‘violent racist’ portrayal

Guardian World28 October 2026, 16:11 UTCUnited States of America

The $72.5m suit alleges Scott Jennings falsely told listeners Piker had a ‘plan of returning our country to lynchings’The prominent socialist political commentator and influencer Hasan Piker is suing his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings for $72.5m over comments on a podcast that he said portrayed him as “a violent racist” who advocated the lynching of Black people.Piker’s defamation lawsuit, filed Tuesday in US district court for the District of Columbia, states that Jennings misrepresented his comments in a podcast and subsequent social media post in August. Continue reading...

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