A Virginia judge determined that Twitter is immune from a defamation and negligence suit that House Intelligence Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed against the social media platform.
Nunes in March 2019 sued Twitter and several Twitter users, seeking damages of at least $250 million, over Twitter posts he deemed abusive, hateful and defamatory and part of what he alleged was an orchestrated defamation campaign on his reputation. The Twitter posts were made by parody Twitter accounts pretending to be Nunes’s mother and Nunes’s cow, as well as a real account for Liz Mair, a former Republican campaign communication strategist who runs communications and opposition research outfit Mair Strategies.
