In 2024, the RationalWiki Foundation was sued by Hassim Haramein, represented by Aaron Cress of [https://latenightlaw.com/ Late Night Law Firm] for defamation. The organization's board of directors publicly acknowledged that the article was problematic and accepted a proposed settlement in which Haramein's article was permanently deleted from the website. They accepted the settlement after a short period of fleecing the site's viewership of a few thousand dollars supposedly to hire an attorney (knowing full and well that would not happen). <ref>https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:RationalMedia_Foundation&oldid=2681720#RationalWiki_has_been_sued</ref> | In 2024, the RationalWiki Foundation was sued by Hassim Haramein, represented by Aaron Cress of [https://latenightlaw.com/ Late Night Law Firm] for defamation. The organization's board of directors publicly acknowledged that the article was problematic and accepted a proposed settlement in which Haramein's article was permanently deleted from the website. They accepted the settlement after a short period of fleecing the site's viewership of a few thousand dollars supposedly to hire an attorney (knowing full and well that would not happen). <ref>https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki_talk:RationalMedia_Foundation&oldid=2681720#RationalWiki_has_been_sued</ref> |