Thursday 2 June 2022 10:01 PM Kyle Rittenhouse says Johnny Depp's win is 'fueling' him to get moving on suing ... trends now
Kyle Rittenhouse said Johnny Depp's win in the defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard is 'fueling' the young man to hurry filing lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg and up to 15 others for allegedly defaming him.
Rittenhouse, 19, who was acquitted on murder charges last year after shooting dead two men during the 2020 Kenosha riots, tweeted on Wednesday that news was coming this week about the defamation cases he plans to file against those who labeled him a 'murderer' and a 'white supremist.'
'Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should,' Rittenhouse wrote, saying the news would be announced on Fox and on his The Media Accountability Project website.
Attorney Todd McMurtry, who is representing Rittenhouse, told Fox News on Thursday that there will be about 10 to 15 lawsuits filed against 'large defendants,' including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Kyle Rittenhouse said he is preparing to file is lawsuits against those who allegedly defamed him when they labeled him a 'murderer' and a 'white supremacist'
Rittenhouse's attorney named Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, pictured, as a key figure who will be sued by the 19-year-old, along with nine to 15 others
Rittenhouse said he was fueled to speed up the lawsuits following Johnny Depp's (pictured) victory against ex-wife Amber Heard in their $100 million defamation lawsuit
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McMurtry singled out Zuckerberg over Facebook's alleged designation of the Kenosha shootings as a 'mass murder incident.'
'This was not a mass murder incident,' McMurtry told Fox. 'It was clearly factually false.'
'To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically… censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character,' he said.
'It was seriously mistaken and seriously defamatory.'
'Facebook has an outsized voice, they can do a lot of damage, as compared to somebody maybe who has a small blog with 100 subscribers. But we're going to look at everything that we have access to and that's been published, and decide which ones are actionable,' he added.
