A federal jury says Lindell and his company FrankSpeech must pay $2.3 million in damages. Mr. Funk was the managing editor of Pleroma Media, and worked as a breaking news reporter at The Messenger after spending 25 years at Fox Television as a producer, executive producer, and digital content director.

A lawyer for the man caught in the center of 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories called MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's use of a trial promo code

The suit was brought against CEO Mike Lindell by a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems who Lindell has repeatedly accused of helping to rig the 2020 presidential election.