By Nadine Yousif
BBC News
The founder of US bedding company My Pillow has been ordered to pay $5m (4m) to an expert who proved his 2020 presidential election data was wrong.
Election denier Mike Lindell was so sure he had data showing Chinese interference in the 2020 vote that he threw down the gauntlet to others.
In 2021 he launched "Prove Mike Wrong" with $5m as a winning prize.
On Wednesday, a private arbitration panel ruled that a software expert did exactly that and was due the money.
The challenge was announced as part of a so-called "cyber symposium" Mr Lindell had organised in South Dakota.
He claimed Chinese interference in some US states delivered President Joe Biden the win over Donald Trump.
He offered the seven-figure sum to anyone who could prove his data had no connection to the 2020 election.
The panel ordered Mr Lindell to pay Bob Zeidman and wrote in their ruling that none of the data Mr Lindell provided was related to that election.
They also ruled that failure to pay the sum would amount to a breach of contract.
In an interview with the BBC's US partner CBS, Mr Zeidman said he spent a few hours examining the data provided by Mr Lindell before determining that it "was all bogus".
"I called my wife and said, 'Think about what you want to do with $5 million'," he recalled.
Mr Zeidman, a Las Vegas resident who voted twice for Mr Trump, added that some of Mr Lindell's data amounted to "a simple Word document and a table" that was made "to look...
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