Fox News has stopped running MyPillow commercials in a payment disagreement with chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell
BySTEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press
January 12, 2024, 6: 44 PM
FILE – MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, speaks to pressreporters outdoors federal court in Washington, June 24,2021 MyPillow chief executive and popular election denier Mike Lindell stated Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 that Fox News has stopped running his business’s commercials, challenging the network’s assertion that it’s merely because he hasn’t paid his costs. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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MINNEAPOLIS — MyPillow chief executive and popular election denier Mike Lindell stated Friday that Fox News has stopped running his business’s commercials, contesting the network’s assertion that it is just because he hasn’t paid his expenses.
Lindell went public by tweeting that Fox, which hadactually been one of MyPillow’s mostsignificant marketing outlets, had canceled him. He stated in his tweet that he didn’t understand why however that he thought that the network was attempting to silence him. Fox rejected that.
Losing Fox was simply the mostcurrent in a series of monetary and legal obstacles for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who continues to propagate previous President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was taken from him, in part by rigged ballot device systems. Several big-box sellers, consistingof Walmart, haveactually ceased his items, and attorneys who were safeguarding him versus disparagement claims by ballot device business giveup.
“As quickly as their account is paid, we would be delighted to accept their marketing,” Fox spokesperson Irena Briganti stated.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lindell acknowledged that MyPillo