Fox News Dumps MyPillow Because Mike Lindell Allegedly Can’t Pay His Bills

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MyPillow founder Mike Lindell claimed this week that Fox News “canceled” his company from advertising on the network, but a source told Mediaite his bedding company’s ads have been put on pause over a failure to pay its bills.

“I’m bringing some disturbing news,” Lindell told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast on Thursday. “Ever since I’ve been speaking out about our election platforms since January ’21, they’ve been attacking my company, MyPillow, with cancel culture… and now Fox News.”

“Fox News has cancelled MyPillow,” he said, before suggesting the partnership was canceled because “my brand is branded right with our great real president, Donald Trump” or “maybe it’s because I brought Lou Dobbs over to my Lindell TV network this week”

“It’s just, it’s disturbing. It’s disgusting,” Lindell said.

A source with knowledge of the situation told Mediaite that the partnership between Fox and MyPillow was paused over unpaid bills: Lindell still hasn’t paid for any MyPillow ads aired on the network since August 2023. The circumstances were communicated to Lindell’s media agency at length, the source added.

A Fox News spokesperson told Mediaite: “As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising.”

Lindell’s alleged unpaid bills are a tiny fraction of the more than a billion in ad sales for the network last year, which demonstrates both why he’s alarmed and why the network has more than enough room to suspend unpaid accounts.

Lindell, who in addition to selling pillows and other bedding products is an infamous 2020 election conspiracy theorist, has blown vast amounts of money on his effort to prove former President Donald Trump actually won. Those efforts have earned him daunting defamation suits from voting tech companies that say he defamed them. In October, his lawyers representing him in three separate defamation suits, said in a court filing he owed them millions in unpaid legal fees and that they could no longer afford to represent him.