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Cartoonist sues Infowars over Political Pepe PosterThe illustrator behind Pepe the Frog, one of the internet’s most popular meme characters, is suing Infowars for copyright infringement. Matt Furie first illustrated Pepe the Frog, a "blissfully stoned" and "peaceful frog-dude" in 2005. According to the website Know Your Meme, Pepe became associated with the “Feels Good Man” reaction. By 2015 however, the 4chan and Reddit communities perpetuated a connection of Pepe to Donald Trump, with the latter even re-tweeting an image of Pepe as himself. Several news outlets have explored how fringe groups connected with the American "alt-right" movement have attempted to adopt Pepe, mixing him with various images of hate (see the Daily Beast’s How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol). Unsurprisingly, Furie has vowed to “aggressively enforce his intellectual property rights” to prevent the…

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