The conservative media network One American News (OAN) aired Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, a “documentary” of the election fraud on Friday with a 90-second indemnity that received considerable attention online.
Prior to his release, Lindell predicted that “The End of Time” would be among us as his two-hour film, Absolute proof, fails to convince Americans that former President Donald Trump lost the election to Joe Biden in November because of voter fraud.
After the project dropped on Friday, OAN aired the film with a striking indemnity.
“Mr. Lindell is the sole author and executive producer of this program and is solely and exclusively responsible for its content,” it reads. “This program is not the product of OAN’s reporting.”
“The statements and claims expressed in this program are currently presented as opinions only and are not intended to be viewed or interpreted by the viewer as established facts.”
According to MarketWatch, the indemnity ‘Absolute Proof’ took to Twitter on Friday, with the preface of OAN making more noise online than the film itself.
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Twitter permanently banned the MyPillow account on Monday after Lindell tried to use it to circumvent his personal ban on the social media platform. “Jack Dorsey is trying to cancel me (Mike Lindell)!” tweeted the MyPillow account last Sunday.
Dominion Voting Systems has sent custody of testimony letters to Lindell, OAN and others for the broadcast of unverified election fraud allegations. Thomas Clare, a lawyer for Dominion, called OAN’s indemnity as a textbook a real malice and insisted that it “certainly does not absolve them from liability.”
“On the contrary, we warned them specifically and in writing that they would be broadcasting false and defamatory statements if they were broadcasting the program, and they made the affirmative decision to disregard that broadcast and broadcast it anyway,” Clare said. Law & Crimeand noted that ‘other outlets have refused to offer it.’
YouTube and Vimeo quickly removed the film hours after it was released on their platforms on Friday. A YouTube spokesperson explained Vice News that the film’s content “violates our integrity policies for presidential elections.”
Politifact, a non-profit fact-checking site run by the Poynter Institute, rated the film as “not intended to be considered a fact” and concluded that its contents did not provide the evidence that his title does not promise.
“The video, which clocks in at about two hours, repeats the old conspiracy theories, and touches on allegations that have been repeatedly hacked down by state and local officials, thrown out by the courts and contradicted by federal agencies,” according to Politifact.
Newsweek One American News issued for comment.