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Original title: „TRUMP MADE THE BOLDEST MOVE! HE DECLARED WAR: He filed a lawsuit against Soros, Gates, Clinton and Biden “ The title of the article, published on the anonymous portal Mkd Press on 14.05.2020, is tendentious and manipulative. The headline claims that US President Trump has filed a lawsuit against several people, including the Clintons, Soros, Gates and Biden. Except in the title, nowhere in the text is it stated that the plaintiff in the lawsuit is the American President, Mr. Donald Trump.
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The published text is misinformation and clickbait. This content has previously been shared by the portals magazin.mk, freeglobe.mk and the blog horoskop-krajnicki.mk.The F2N2 team made a detailed analysis in order to find out if there is a lawsuit, as written in the mentioned manipulative text.Although in the very title it is stated that “TRUMP MADE THE BOLDEST MOVE! HE DECLARED WAR: He filed a lawsuit against Soros, Gates, Clinton and Biden“, nowhere in the article is it specified that the plaintiff was US President Mr. Donald Trump.The article reads:„A lawsuit has been filed in the federal court in California against two former presidents of the United States, several members of their families, close associates, sponsors, as well as foreign politicians and companies.The 87-page lawsuit was filed against Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joe and Hunter Biden, Bill Gates, George Soros and other representatives of the former administration and the “deep state“.The lawsuit also involved some of the most successful companies: Amazon, Boston Dynamics, Hanson Robotics, Sensetime, Icarbon X, Tesla Inc., Neuralink Inc., Alphabet Inc., as well as Facebook of Gates Microsoft and Zuckerberg. The list also includes the Chinese companies Huawei and Alibaba, as well as the Chinese Communist Party.The claim that the US president has filed a lawsuit, as the headline manipulatively states, is untrue. In fact, the plaintiff is a certain Cyrus A. Parsa. The portal MKD Press does not state who the source of the information is, but the same text which is published on the portal Magazin.mk states webtribune.rs as its source and it is linked at the end of the entire text.The text from webtribune.rs, which was used as a source on Magazin.mk, was published on 02.05.2020, and it was disclosed by the Bosnian fact-checker Raskrikavanje.ba.If you search for the person Cyrus A. Parsa, you will find a Twitter profile with his data which has 21,000 followers and a certain organization that is run by the mentioned person. There are no data on his expertise, skills, etc. there.Parsa on 06.01.2020 created a support fund in order to realize the indicated lawsuit. He managed to raise 9,971 US dollars through donations. He has indeed filed a lawsuit against several individuals, companies, media, foundations and organizations. He accuses them of abusing advanced technologies, for which he seeks financial damages. Initially, the lawsuit was filed on 16.12.2019, but then there were several additions on February 26 and 27, 2020 and the last one is on 05.05.2020. This data can be found on the website of the online US court archives.There is no correlation between Cyrus, his lawsuit and Trump. But, this also is a manipulative attempt to create the false impression that Trump is behind the lawsuit. The truth is that the US President has not filed a lawsuit against these people.The F2N2 team evaluates this text as disinformation and 'clickbait'. Although at first glance it is referring to US President Trump, this narrative is intended to show that the United States is in big trouble. The purpose of such narratives is to portray the United States and Western countries as divided and not united.
