
Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes real news imitates fake news.
Just days after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of homicide after shooting and killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a story started to make its rounds on conservative Facebook groups claiming that the 19-year-old had filed a $400 million lawsuit against CNN and a $60 million lawsuit against The View hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. Both of those stories, Rittenhouse’s lawyer’s confirmed, were false.