North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson filed a lawsuit against CNN on Tuesday over a report alleging that he made controversial racist and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board over ten years ago. The complaint accuses the report of being reckless and defamatory, according to The Associated Press.
This development comes as Robinson is currently running for the state’s governor’s seat. The candidate has denied the details of the report.
CNN “chose to publish despite knowing or recklessly disregarding that Lt. Gov. Robinson’s data — including his name, date of birth, passwords, and the email address supposedly associated with the NudeAfrica account — were previously compromised by multiple data breaches,” the lawsuit states, referencing the website.
Robinson, who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, called the report a “high-tech…
