The online video platform and web-host company Rumble scored a victory on Friday when a federal judge held Rumble could proceed with discovery in its defamation lawsuit against Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, the co-founders of Check My Ads.
The court’s ruling also suggests the efforts by the Check My Ads co-founders to have Rumble’s civil case tossed will fail, meaning the country may soon learn much more about how the censorship-industrial complex functions — including Democrats and Media Matters’ alleged role.
In late November, Rumble filed a two-count complaint in a federal court in Florida against Jammi and Atkins and ten unnamed John Doe Defendants. According to the complaint, Jammi and Atkins are co-founders of Check My Ads, a 501(c) tax-exempt organization purportedly serving as “an independent watchdog reshaping the digital advertising industry.”
The complaint further alleged that “John Does 1–10 are Check My Ads, Media Matters, and/or Dewey Square Group employees,” with Media Matters being David Brock’s organization that targets conservative media outlets. The Dewey Square Group is a Democrat consulting group which, according to the complaint, provided an analysis of advertisements displayed on Rumble, allegedly paid for by Media Matters and then used in a 2022 article Check My Ads published.
But it was an October 24, 2023 article Check My Ads ran, allegedly written, edited, and published by employees of Check My Ads, Media Matters for America, and/or Dewey Square Group which, along with X posts by Jammi and Atkins, served as the basis for
