The billionaire co-founder of business social media site and annoying spammer LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has made a multi-million dollar investment in election software company Smartmatic designed to fund the business’s defamation lawsuits against Fox and other conservative misinformation outlets, the Washington Post reports.
Following the lead of his former colleague at PayPal, Hoffman’s money will support Smartmatic’s legal efforts the same way Peter Theil’s wealth brought down Gawker by funding Hulk Hogan’s defamation case against the website.
“Smartmatic’s technology has counted 7 billion votes on 6 continents with zero security breaches,” Smartmatic chief executive Antonio Mugica said in his personal statement commenting on the deal. “Voters, candidates and election officials in all of those elections are watching to see if we still stand up for the truth against lies. Rest assured, we do.”