
And other stories from the stranger side of life
An ally of Donald Trump has been forced to pay $5 million after losing a bet that no one could prove one of his election fraud claims wrong. At a cyber symposium in 2021, Mike Lindell, the founder of the MyPillow firm, claimed he had data showing that China interfered in the 2020 vote, and said he would pay anyone who could prove the material was not from that US election. However, noted the Washington Post, Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert, has proved that the data had nothing to do with that election.