Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday announced the launch of a new initiative that he says will raise money to sue media organizations.
Speaking on Fox News, Rittenhouse said he decided to launch The Media Accountability Project to help raise money and hold the media accountable for their lies.
Anyone who wants to take the media to court will be supported by the project.
The 18-year-old said that he didn't want to see anyone else deal with what he went through.
Rittenhouse told Carlson his team is looking at politicians, athletes, and celebrities.
Rittenhouse said that the founder of The Young Turks and the TV personality Whoopi Goldberg were both accused of calling him a murderer despite his acquittal.
Rittenhouse said that they would handle them in a courtroom.
In November of last year, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges after he shot and killed two people during a protest over a police shooting.
He was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment.
Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky student, contacted Rittenhouse after the verdict.
The video that showed him staring down a Native American activist at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, was posted on the internet in 2019.
Several media were sued by Sandmann for their coverage of the incident, in which he was accused of being racist.
CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC News have all settled with Sandmann.
In a column for the Daily Mail in November 2021, Sandmann encouraged Rittenhouse to take legal action against media outlets.
Goldberg and The Young Turks did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.
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