Mark Robinson sues CNN for $50M

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Mark Robinson, the controversial Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, is suing CNN for $50 million in damages for disclosing his alleged racist comments published on an adult site and forum.

In a shock report broadcast on September 19, CNN revealed that it had discovered an account on an adult site linked to Robinson, indicating that he had posted explicit racist and sexual comments on the site’s forum.

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Robinson called the report “irresponsible and defamatory” and is seeking $50 million in damages for defamation in a complaint filed in Wake County Superior Court.

In his complaint, Robinson claims that CNN published this information when it was already known that his email had been compromised by several data breaches.

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According to CNN, Robinson wrote several messages between 2008 and 2012 on the forum of site Nude Africa, on which he allegedly referred to himself as a “perv” and a “Black Nazi“, among other things, and expressed support for the reinstatement of slavery.

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In other messages, according to CNN, he stated that he used to watch women changing in the locker room when he was younger.

It should be remembered that since this news was posted, Republicans, including Trump, have distanced themselves from the election campaign of Robinson, an ultra-conservative candidate with controversial remarks, who was previously a favorite of the ex-president, despite the fact that he denied being the author of these messages.

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CNN, for its part, claimed that several pieces of evidence established a direct link between Robinson and the site, including the use of the same personal e-mail.