Far-left streamer Hasan Piker has filed a $73 million defamation lawsuit against conservative commentator Scott Jennings, accusing him of using a manipulated video to falsely portray Piker as advocating for the lynching of Black people. The complaint, filed in Washington D.C., centers on an August episode of "The Scott Jennings Show."
Piker's suit alleges that Jennings aired a clip of Piker's stream that had been edited to remove context, making it appear as though Piker was endorsing lynching. The original clip, according to the suit, featured Piker mocking a conservative commenter who had invoked the idea of