<p>The $72.5m suit alleges Scott Jennings falsely told listeners Piker had a ‘plan of returning our country to lynchings’</p><p>The prominent socialist political commentator and influencer Hasan Piker is suing his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings for $72.5m over comments on a podcast that he said portrayed him as “a violent racist” who advocated the lynching of Black people.</p><p>Piker’s defamation <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.298060/gov.uscourts.dcd.298060.1.0.pdf">lawsuit</a>, filed Tuesday in US district court for the District of Columbia, states that Jennings misrepresented his comments in a podcast and subsequent social media post in August.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/hasan-piker-lawsuit-scott-jennings">Continue reading...</a>