Mike Lindell vowed to give $5 million to anyone who proved his election-fraud claims were false; he’s been or

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Mike Lindell, the MyPillow chief executive who has been spreading conspiracies about the 2020 presidential election for more than two years, was ordered Wednesday by an arbitration panel to pay $5 million to a software engineer who proved claims that Lindell had made were not valid.

The Washington Post reports ruling is based on a challenge Lindell issued in August 2021 at a “cyber symposium” in South Dakota. Lindell offered a $5 million reward for anyone who could prove that “packet captures” and other data he released there were not valid data “from the November 2020 election.”