Ripple Sues XRP_Productions for “Making Us Look Silly”
A day after announcing their bold lawsuit against YouTube for not policing reputation-damaging scam videos, blockchain payments company Ripple filed another complaint in a San Francisco federal court against satirical crypto-news outlet XRP the Standard Productions for “continually making us look silly, even though it's often funny sh*t.”
“Quite frankly, I've had it up to here,” said CEO Brad Garlinghouse to XRP_Productions reporters as he laid out dozens of Photoshopped images made by the publication. “Whether they have me giving away 60 billion XRP to a Twitter scammer, grovelling to Judge Judy, or wearing ridiculous moon boots on stage at Davos, they are ALWAYS making me look like a fool! Was I laughing? YES, but that's beside the point. Enough!!”
Two XRP_Productions fake news stories that caused Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse to be “particularly pissed off” and thus move ahead with Wednesday's lawsuit.
“I stand with Brad,” said Ripple CTO David Schwartz, himself the butt of the joke in many of the comedic articles. “They had me wandering Warriors stadium like a crazy person, trying to use my celebrity status to get out of a ticket, and pulling a fire alarm to end a banking meeting because I was 'hangry.' Okay, well the last one was true, but I'm still offended...”
Two absurd articles from XRP_Productions that caused Ripple's David Schwartz to laugh but ultimately join CEO Brad Garlinghouse in Wednesday's lawsuit against the fake news outlet.
Surprising many in the crypto world who didn't know the humorous news outlet was even on his radar, President Donald Trump expressed his approval of the lawsuit, claiming XRP_Productions had made him look equally foolish on many occasions.
“They are fake news,” said President Trump. “Not as bad as CNN, of course, and much funnier, but still... Fake. F-a-k-e.”
*Coil subscribers can see which articles particularly pissed off the President below**...*
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