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Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings

Reason · Oct 27, 5:20 PM CT

Reason reported that from the complaint in Piker v.

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It also noted that on August 11, 2026, Scott Jennings falsely told a nationwide podcast audience that Hasan Piker was "out there calling for Black voters to be lynched." He falsely told his listeners that Mr.

The account added that piker had a "plan of returning our country to lynchings." And then he falsely told his social media followers that Mr.

Further in the report, piker "says the USA should resume lynchings against black people.".

The dispatch went on: piker has never advocated the lynching of Black Americans, or anyone else.

He has never called for a return to lynchings.

And he has never proposed anything remotely resembling the supposed plan that Mr.

Jennings falsely attributed to him.

Jennings did not merely mischaracterize something Mr.

He took a false, fabricated, and manipulated video of Mr.

Piker, added a made-up quotation that Mr.

Piker never uttered, and then made accusations that went beyond even what the manipulated footage purported to show.

Jennings presented those accusations as fact, telling his viewers to "[l]isten for yourself" about Mr.

Piker, knowing that he was playing a falsified video of Mr.

Piker for those viewers, and completely disregarding the truth of Mr.

The underlying footage came from a broadcast nearly two years earlier on Twitch, an online streaming service owned by Amazon.

Piker was reacting to a debate between two Black political commentators, one liberal and one conservative.

When the conservative commentator blamed "woke DAs" for policies supposedly harming Black Americans, Mr.

Piker mocked him by sarcastically portraying that comment as nostalgia for an era before the civil rights movement.

He said, "We need more Klansmen, okay.

Can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening.

This is what I like as a Black man.

Also, there's no real racism in America." My man said, "woke DAs," dude.

Piker was plainly ridiculing the commentator's position.

The debate video remained visible behind him.

Piker introduced the remarks with "He said," laughed as he delivered them, and concluded by questioning the commentator's argument.

His viewers understood the sarcasm.

Others expressly described his comments as hyperbole.

Still others predicted that someone would eventually remove the context and circulate the resulting footage as though Mr.

Piker had been speaking sincerely.

That is precisely what happened.

In August 2026, a 42-second video began circulating on social media that combined fragments of three separate Twitch broadcasts.

Piker's October 2024 stream had been cropped, shortened, and rearranged.

The underlying debate was removed from view.

So was the contemporaneous audience commentary.

The words "He said," which identified the object of Mr.

Piker's laughter and subsequent explanation were also removed.

The resulting video portrayed sarcastic criticism of another as though it were an expression of Mr.

Jennings broadcast that false video on The Scott Jennings Show, misrepresenting the manipulated video as authentic.

The Buffalo Brief wrote this from the public report by Reason. Nothing was added past what that report said.

Reported by Reason. https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/27/hasan-piker-sues-scott-jennings