Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, speaks at a campaign rally in support of former President Trump‘s re-election in Minnesota, Oct. 10, 2019.
Video-sharing platforms YouTube and Vimeo have removed a video of Mike Lindell, known as “Pillow Guy” and founder of My Pillow, a leading U.S. pillow company. Mike Lindell’s video. The video, titled “Absolute Proof,” reveals fraud in the Nov. 3, 2020, U.S. presidential election.
YouTube spokesman Alex Joseph told The Washington Times and other media outlets on Feb. 6 that “in accordance with our presidential election integrity policy, we remove content that is uploaded after the safe harbor deadline ” including content that claims “fraud, error or malfunction changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
“We removed the video and its re-uploads in accordance with this policy.” Joseph said.
In early December, Google‘s YouTube platform announced that it would remove content about election fraud after the Dec. 8, 2020, “safe harbor” deadline for electoral votes in each state.
Vimeo said it removed the Lindell video because it “violates Vimeo’s policy on posting content that claims the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, stolen or otherwise illegal.
Facebook, the social media platform, tagged the post where the video was shared, but it can still be viewed when the link is clicked. The video, “Absolute Proof,” is also available on Lindell’s personal account on the StreamHoster hosting platform.
According to the English-language Epoch Times, Lindell also paid for an hours-long spot on the One America News Network (OAN). The outlet included a disclaimer before airing Lindell’s “Absolute Evidence” video.
“Mr. Lindell is the sole author and executive producer of this program and is solely responsible for its content.” In the statement, OAN emphasized that “this program is not a report by OAN.”
The disclaimer continued, “In addition, the statements and claims expressed in this program are presented as opinion only at this Time and are not intended to be taken or interpreted as established fact by viewers.”
On Jan. 26, Twitter shut down Lindell’s Twitter account for “violating its citizen integrity policy,” and a week later suspended his corporate account, MyPillow. Twitter claimed that it suspended his company account for allegedly violating Twitter’s ban evasion policy.
Lindell is a strong supporter of former President Trump and has repeatedly denounced election fraud in public. In an interview with USA Today last week, he said, “I can’t believe they would do this to my company,” and “they are trying to destroy me.
Lindell also said he has faced not only censorship of speech from high-tech companies, but also crackdowns from the U.S. business community. For example, major retailers Kohl’s, Bed Bath & Beyond and JCPenney have all stopped selling MyPillow-branded products. According to Lindell, these retailers are engaged in a “politically motivated campaign to unbundle their contracts.
However, Lindell has received overwhelming support from the American public for his public support of Trump, and online sales of his pillows are in short supply.
“Thank you to everyone who supported MyPillow during this time,” Lindell said, “We were very busy and hiring as fast as we could to handle all the shipping!”
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