Five years ago, Candace Owens was a mid-tier political operative working for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Now, she’s a globally famous conservative firebrand with one of the fastest-growing independent media platforms in the U.S., raking in cash through controversy. But the same contrarian playbook that launched her solo career now threatens the media empire she built. Her company generates up to $10 million in revenues per year, according to an analysis by Fortune, implying that the company’s valuation would be multiples of that. The conservative podcaster and provocateur is facing a high-stakes defamation lawsuit filed by French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron. The suit is set to test whether the controversy-as-currency oeuvre that made her rich, and gave he

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