The creator of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon amphibian adopted as a far-right mascot during the 2016 presidential campaign, has successfully sued in recent years to keep his creation from appearing on white nationalist websites, alt-right Reddit forums and the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. On Monday, the conspiracy website Infowars became the latest online venue to say goodbye to Pepe, when it settled a lawsuit filed by the cartoonist, Matt Furie, over a poster it sold in 2017 and 2018 that featured the frog alongside images of President Trump and Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars. Under the terms of the settlement, Infowars agreed to give Mr. Furie all of its profits from the poster — which amounted to $14,000 — and an additional $1,000 that the cartoonist said he would donate to an amphibian conservation charity, Save the Frogs. “What we asked for at the beginning of the case is for Infowars to stop selling the poster and to turn over all of their profits,” Louis Tompros, a lawyer for Mr. Furie, said on Monday. “Anyone who is going to make money using Pepe as an image of hate is not something Mr. Furie has ever authorized and is not something he is going to tolerate.”

Source: New York Times June 10, 2019 22:41 UTC