An arbitration panel in the United States has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5m to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves China interfered in the 2020 presidential elections, tipping the outcome to Joe Biden.
But Lindell told The Associated Press on Thursday that he has no intention of paying and that he expects the dispute to land in court.
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Lindell has been a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from former Republican President Donald Trump.
He launched his “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” to further his theories, offering — through one of his companies — a $5m reward for anyone who could prove that “packet captures” and other data he released were not valid data from the 2020 election.
The challenge was part of the “Cyber Symposium” Lindell staged in South Falls, South Dakota, in August 2021.
Robert Zeidman entered the challenge with a 15-page report that concluded the data from Lindell did not “contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election”.
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