Gay creator of extremist website sued over false claims & harassment of election workers

The lawsuit was first reported by Reuters, which came days after their investigation that highlighted Moss’s and Freeman’s struggles in light of the far-right disinformation campaign to further push election conspiracy theories. Moss, who was a voter registration officer during the election for Fulton County, Georgia, and Freeman, who was a temporary employee, claim with their suit that the Gateway Pundit‘s repeated “lies” that they are “traitors” and “steal the presidential election in Georgia” has led to irreparable harm to their “devastated” reputation.

The accusation stems from the website’s coverage of a lawyer for the Trump campaign claiming in December that workers for Fulton County, the most-populated county in Georgia that largely went to Joe Biden, that had supposedly bought in “suitcases” of fake votes in favor of Biden.

While the legal theory failed in court, the Gateway Pundit and other far-right websites picked up the coverage and continued claiming that Moss and Freeman had help to “steal” the election. Not only did they publicly accuse Moss and Freeman, but one Gateway Pundit headline read, “What’s Up, Ruby?” after they found footage of her carrying what Georgia’s Secretary of State says is standard election equipment, proudly declaring that the “Crooked Operative… IS IDENTIFIED.”

The Gateway Pundit allegedly “instigated  a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety” to the point that Freeman went into hiding.