Who didn’t see this coming? Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Part of the lawsuit reads:
“The truth matters. Lies have consequences. Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process. If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.”
The AP writes, “Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, ‘sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,’ according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.”
The publication adds:
Some Fox News employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. On-air personalities brought on Trump allies Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who spread the claims, and then amplified those claims on Fox News’ massive social media platforms.
Dominion has already filed similar lawsuits against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell. The company has not ruled out filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump as well. In a court filing this week, Powell’s attorney asked a judge to dismiss the case saying “no reasonable person would conclude” that Powell’s statements about the 2020 presidential election were “truly statements of fact.”
Back in February, Smartmatic filed a $2.7B defamation and disparagement lawsuit against Fox News as well “for false claims about us related to US 2020 presidential election.”
