However, Scooter noticed those allegations and responded, “I will be discussing multiple legal angles with my legal team to file for potential defamation.”
The influencer, who often tweets sarcastically or in subtext for humorous purposes, then followed-up by saying, “my name/brand will not be manipulated and tarnished for your enjoyment and engagement.”
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Defamation is a tort under statutory and state common laws and can include written statements like libel when someone knowingly and injuriously lies to third parties in a physical communication like print in order to cause reputational damage.
The headline defendants of the lawsuit are Pump.fun and Solana’s Foundation and Labs entities. However, it names individual defendants, including Pump.fun founder Alon Cohen and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as a variety of social media users.
The litigation is active and is seeking class action certification against the whole group of defendants who allegedly participated in a “coordinated criminal organization that constructed and operated a rigged, unlicensed gambling operation” across Solana and Pump.fun ecosystems.
Burwick Law is a controversial, crypto litigation firm that claims to have put billions of dollars worth of claims before federal judges.
Protos reached out to Burwick Law and Scooter for comments on this disagreement. Neither responded prior to publication.
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