Daily Beast: “MyPillow founder and staunch Trump ally Mike Lindell plans to launch a social network of his own in the next few weeks, creating a haven for the kind of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that have been banned on more prominent social-media sites. On Lindell’s ‘Vocl’ social media platform, users will be free to claim that a supercomputer stole the election from Donald Trump, or that vaccines are a tool of the devil. Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called ‘Vocal,’ spelled with an ‘A,’ already exists. On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal’s publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc., warned Lindell to change his social media network’s name and surrender ownership of the Vocl.com domain name. If Lindell refuses to change the name, he could face a lawsuit.”

“While Lindell has promised to turn Vocl into a ‘cross between Twitter and YouTube,’ Vocal is a publishing platform similar to Medium where writers can post and monetize articles. ‘It is clear that you are acting with bad faith and with intent to profit from Creatd’s mark,’ the letter reads, claiming Lindell’s Vocl would ‘tarnish’ the Vocal brand. When asked on Friday morning about the new legal warning, the embattled MyPillow CEO and Trump friend replied, ‘It has nothing to do with their trademark. I haven’t even launched yet. But it has nothing to do with us.’ Lindell claims Vocl is also an acronym. ‘Ours stands for the ‘Victory of Christ’s Love,’’ Lindell added.”