Devin Nunes sues Twitter and users, including @DevinNunesMom, for defamation.

California representative Devin Nunes filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Monday alleging that the social media company was "conservative bans" (surreptitiously downplaying their tweets) and allowing harassment defamatory on the platform. The Super Trumpy member of the House's Intelligence Committee is asking for $ 250 million in compensatory damages and $ 350,000 in punitive damages. The lawsuit also targets a handful of individual Twitter users, including @DevinNunesMom, "Devin Nunes" Cow or @DevinCow, and Republican consultant Liz Mair, who has worked with the anti-black money group Swamp Accountability Project, which was also aimed at Nunes Online.

Twitter is guilty of having "knowingly hosted and monetized a clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory content – offering both a voice and a financial incentive to defamers – thus facilitating defamation on its platform," says Nunes action. The lawsuit goes on to say that Twitter's lack of control over the content created and broadcast on its platform is intentional and has had the effect of "selectively amplifying the message of slanderers".

The costume included, ahem, some examples:

"The defendant, the mother of Devin Nunes, is a person who, with Twitter's consent, misappropriated the name of Nunes, falsely imitated Nunes' mother, and created and maintained a Twitter account (@DevinNunesMom) in the only purpose to attack, to defame, to harm and humiliating Nunes, "says the suit. "In her endless stream of tweets, Devin Nunes 'mother maliciously attacked all aspects of Nunes' character, honesty, integrity, ethics and ability to exert his duties as a member of the US Congress. " The lawsuit claims that Nunes was re-elected to a narrower margin. the result of the attacks by this random account that has now been suspended.

The real irony here is that Devin Nunes has moved away from the truth himself, both online and in real life, to defend our current head of defamation.