In March, Rep. Devin Nunes filed a $250 million defamation suit against Twitter, an imaginary cow that comments on the social media platform and two other Twitter users.
Before the defamation suit, @DevinCow had 1,204 followers.
The imaginary cow now has 633,000 followers.
Nunes filed another defamation suit for $150 million in April, this time against the McClatchy news chain that owns The Fresno Bee.
Nunes was particularly upset about a story by reporter Mackenzie Mays published in the Bee with the headline, "A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event."
Soon after Nunes filed the second lawsuit, the hashtag "#YachtCocaineProstitutes" spread across Twitter like wildfire, and led me on my quest to find the Alpha Omega yacht mentioned in the court filing.
The congressman may want to reconsider his strategy for combating negative publicity.
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