A transgender US pilot on Wednesday filed a defamation suit against a conservative affected person, who falsely claimed on social media that he was blowing a military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington at the end of January.
Joe Ellis sued an influential Matt Wallace with 2.2 million followers on platform X, stating that she filed “a destructive and non -defamation campaign campaign” according to the trial in the US district court in Colorado, according to the trial in the US district court in Colorado.
One of his posts, who receive millions of views, said that the Black Hawk Pilot may have participated in the “Trans-Terror Attack”, which misrepresented him wrongly due to “depression” and “gender dysforia” according to the case.
There was no immediate comment from Wallace, who later removed her positions about Ellis.
The suit accused Wallace of using his major height on the X, where he maintains several accounts, “demands a milestone of a false story.”
Since thousands of social media posts falsely accused Alice of piloting a sick helicopter, he was worried that a person could track his home using a public record.
He told AFP in an interview in February that he was forced to temporarily move his family to a new place and arrange for private armed security.
The damage caused by the wallace was “immediate and immense”, resulting in his family sad due to his “lies” inspired by his “lies”, the lawsuit said.
Ellis eventually posted a “proof of life” on Facebook, which had only a few rumors.
The dangers facing Ellis, who have served in the National Guards since 2009 and have been posted in Iraq and Kuwait, at one time highlight the impact of the real -life of disintegration to transgender people, when political rhetoric has increased a rapid increase against them.
The transgender community has become a flashpoint in culture wars that provoke the United States. President Trump has signed several executive orders that targeted him, including directing the government to recognize only two sexes, men and women.
After the accident, Trump suggested – without offering any evidence – that the practices of the aviation authority hiring can be partially convicted for this, making trans the people a cooked target for online rumors.
Ellis’s suit is part of a trend in which defamation cases have become rapidly a tool used by American citizens and pro -democracy groups that are to make misunderstanding spreaders financially and personally accountable.
In 2023, the Dominion Voting System got a $ 787.5 million disposal from Fox News after sueing the false claims that its machines changed the votes.
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