Latest ‘Pillow’ fight
Embattled Lindell hits back over petition
MyPillow guy Mike Lindell claims “bots and trolls” are behind a popular petition urging major retailers to cut ties with his company — and he has hired private eyes to prove it.
In an interview with The Post Wednesday, Lindell blasted as fake a Change.org petition that has racked up about 105,000 signatures demanding Amazon, Walmart and Costco stop selling MyPillow products over Lindell’s continued efforts to sow doubts over Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
“This petition was put up by companies that are full of bots and trolls,” Lindell said. “All they’ve done is attack retailers. These are hired groups to attack retailers.”
Asked what evidence he has for his claims, Lindell admitted he’s still trying to dig that up. He pointed instead to Facebook profiles with “zero friends” that have left negative comments on pages belonging to “retailers that were attacked before.”
“I’ve hired investigators out of my own pocket, huge companies to investigate who’s behind these because somebody ordered these attacks,” the embattled CEO said. “Change.org, they’re probably another attack group.
We’re gonna find out who’s doing this to our country.”
Change.org, an online-petition company with 400 million users, shot down Lindell’s claims, saying the MyPillow campaign was started by a real person and that all the signatures are authentic. The company also noted that other users have started petitions supporting Lindell.
“Our engineering team puts significant resources toward spam detection and prevention, from removing fake or inactive e-mails and verifying the authenticity of our users’ e-mail addresses to monitoring petitions for suspicious signatures,” a Change.org rep told The Post in a statement. “If we are made aware of any fraudulent signatures, we remove them immediately — and in this case, we can confirm that the signatures on this petition are not fraudulent.”
Lindell’s repeated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from ex-President Donald Trump has already resulted in some 22 retailers dropping MyPillow products, which he has estimated cost him $65 million in sales.
This petition was put up by companies that are full of bots and trolls... these are hired groups to atta ck retailers.