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Dominion settles $1.6 B defamation lawsuit against FOX, UPDATE- SMARTMATIC $2.7 BILLION SUIT MOVES FORWARD

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Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Friday seeking $1.6 billion in damages against Fox News, arguing that the network knowingly spread misinformation about the company's role in nonexistent voter fraud.

Why it matters: This is the first time Dominion has sued a media company in its efforts to collect billions in damages from pro-Trump figures who have pushed baseless conspiracy theories about its voting machines.

  • Dominion has previously sued Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, and the pro-Trump MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. All have appeared as guests on Fox News.
  • Smartmatic, another voting company baselessly accused of taking part in an international communist plot to rig the election for Joe Biden, filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, some of the network's top hosts, Giuliani, and Powell in February.
Between the lines: Powell moved to dismiss Dominion's lawsuit against her earlier this week, arguing that "no reasonable person" would conclude that her claims about an election-rigging scheme "were truly statements of fact."

  • Fox also moved to dismiss the lawsuit by Smartmatic in February, claiming the suit seeks to "stifle debate and chill vital First Amendment activities."
Details: Dominion argues that Fox News "set out to lure viewers back — including President Trump himself — by intentionally and falsely blaming Dominion for President Trump’s loss by rigging the election."

  • "Fox, one of the most powerful media companies in the United States, gave life to a manufactured storyline about election fraud that cast a then-little-known voting machine company called Dominion as the villain," the lawsuit reads.
  • "[E]ven after Fox was put on specific written notice of the facts, it stuck to the inherently improbable and demonstrably false preconceived narrative and continued broadcasting the lies of facially unreliable sources — which were embraced by Fox’s own on-air personalities — because the lies were good for Fox’s business."
  • "These lies transformed Dominion into a household name. As a result of Fox’s orchestrated defamatory campaign, Dominion’s employees, from its software engineers to its founder and Chief Executive Officer, have been repeatedly harassed. Some have even received death threats. And of course, Dominion’s business has suffered enormous and irreparable economic harm."
The big picture: Defamation lawsuits have so far proven somewhat effective in curbing the spread of disinformation about voter fraud on cable TV, although political disinformation about the coronavirus and the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 is still prevalent on some conservative networks, particularly in primetime, as Axios reported in February.

The bottom line: "The truth matters. Lies have consequences," Dominion's complaint says. There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. The Department of Homeland Security called the election "the most secure in American history."






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Dominion Voting Systems files $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News

The election technology provider launched a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing that the cable news network amplified false claims that the company rigged the 2020 US presidential election in order to boost its ratings. Dominion Voting Systems has filed a number of lawsuits in recent weeks against other news networks and political figures who perpetuated similarly unsubstantiated claims. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 elections, according to federal and state officials.







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Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News

(CNN Business)A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward.
Judge Eric Davis of the Delaware Superior Court declined to dismiss Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox News in a significant ruling Thursday.
The ruling will now allow Dominion to attempt to unearth extensive communications within Fox News as they gather evidence for the case, and the company may be able to interview the network's top names under oath.
At this stage, the court must assume Dominion's claims about Fox News are true.


Still, Davis called out, in the 52-page opinion, that Fox News may have slanted its coverage to push election fraud, knowing the accusations were wrong.
Dominion alerted the network's anchors and executives to information that disproved accusations of widespread vote-switching following Donald Trump's re-election loss, the judge noted.

"Nevertheless, Fox and its news personnel continued to report Dominion purported connection to the election fraud claims without also reporting on Dominion's emails ... Given that Fox apparently refused to report contrary evidence, including evidence from the Department of Justice, the Complaint's allegations support the reasonable inference that Fox intended to keep Dominion's side of the story out of the narrative," the judge wrote.
The court rejected Fox News' claims that it was able to discuss Trump advisers' election fraud conspiracies under principles of news reporting.

Fox News reacted to the ruling saying in a statement, "As we have maintained, FOX News, along with every single news organization across the country, vigorously covered the breaking news surrounding the unprecedented 2020 election, providing full context of every story with in-depth reporting and clear-cut analysis. We remain committed to defending against this baseless lawsuit and its all-out assault on the First Amendment."

The lawsuit alleges Fox News personalities including Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity and their on-air guests Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell spread lies about fraud in the 2020 election that hurt Dominion's business. It is one of several lawsuits Dominion has brought related to right-wing claims after the election, and is a major win for the company.
The case will continue to move forward toward a final judgment, as both sides gather evidence. The judge is still considering whether Dominion can be considered a well-known entity, which could give Fox News some protection under the law.


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Dominion Voting attorney calls out Fox for missing evidence in defamation lawsuit

KEY POINTS
  • Dominion Voting Systems said Fox News and its parent company still haven’t produced evidence, two months before the two are set to go to trial.
  • A Fox attorney said he disagreed, pointing out Dominion has been late to produce documents itself.
  • Dominion sued Fox for $1.6 billion, arguing the company and its networks made false claims that its voting machines rigged the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Dominion Voting Systems is calling out Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp, for failing to turn over evidence, with less than two months before the companies are set to go to trial over a defamation lawsuit.

On Wednesday, attorneys for Dominion and Fox met before a Delaware Superior Court judge to discuss scheduling for upcoming checkpoints.

However, an attorney for Dominion said they are concerned that some evidence – such as certain board meeting minutes and the results of searches of personal drives – has yet to be produced by Fox and its cable TV networks. While this issue was already raised in July and January, the Dominion attorney said Wednesday they are still missing documents.

“We have not gotten anything. We pointed out categories of missing documents for both Fox News and Fox Corp that are still missing. And we are not talking about a document slipping through ... we are talking about categories of documents,” said Dominion attorney Justin Nelson on Wednesday.

Nelson said Dominion’s attorneys had been assured that Fox’s legal team would “ask the hard questions about missing documents so that we didn’t have to do it and engage in further discovery practice.”

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Dominion calls out Fox for missing evidence in lawsuit (cnbc.com)
 
In private, Fox News stars and staffers blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows
Internal communications from Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others are part of Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network.
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Sean Hannity said, according to the legal filing: “That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.”

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Employees at Fox News knew that claims blaming election fraud for Donald Trump’s 2020 loss were outlandish and false, even as the network continued to promote them as credible, a newly unsealed court filing appears to show.

The document, which pulls from a host of internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage, includes comments and quotes revealing that producers, executives and stars of the network knew that the election wasn’t stolen and that many fraud claims were bogus. The communications suggest that Fox News zeroed in on fraud claims as a way to boost ratings and appease their conservative viewership, who some at the company believed abandoned them after President Joe Biden won in Arizona.


According to the filing, Bill Sammon, Fox News senior vice president and managing editor of the Washington bureau, told a colleague in December that “it’s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things.”

The filing is the latest to be made public in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, one of the largest manufacturers of U.S. voting equipment, against Fox News.

Dominion has been a frequent target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Its suit includes hundreds of pages documenting times that the network lobbed bogus allegations against the company, among them that its software was rigged against Trump and that the company was secretly owned in Venezuela.

“There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan,” Fox said in a statement Thursday evening.

The newly unsealed messages and comments are the starkest evidence yet that many at Fox were aware that the election fraud claims didn’t have basis in fact and offer a unique window into the chaotic post-election period at the network.

Even certain hosts who sometimes embrace conspiracy theories on their shows said in private that they knew that Sidney Powell, who filed election lawsuits to stop multiple states that Joe Biden had won from certifying their elections, was not telling the truth, according to the filings.

Dominion is also suing Powell for defamation.

Tucker Carlson told a producer soon after the election that Powell “is lying,” the documents show. He would text Fox host Laura Ingraham the same thing later in the month, adding that "it's insane" and "it's unbelievably offensive to me. Our viewers are good people and they believe it."

Sean Hannity said, according to the legal filing: “That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.”

Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night, but the filing notes that she was spreading clearly unreliable evidence of her Dominion claims even before she was interviewed.

In an email Powell shared with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo ahead of an appearance on the network, a "source" advances allegations about Dominion alongside claims that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died earlier that year of a heart attack, had been murdered in a "human hunting expedition" and that she communicated with "the Wind."

Bartiromo responded to Powell that she had shared this "very imp[ortant] info with Eric Trump."

Ron Mitchell, a top executive overseeing prime-time programming and ratings, privately told colleagues that the Dominion claims were "bs." He called Powell and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani "clowns," per the filing, and joked that they "left out Ernst Stavro Blofeld," a James Bond villain.

Even Fox’s internal fact-checks after the election found that claims of election fraud were “incorrect” and “not evidence of widespread fraud.”

Dominion has said that to increase viewership, the network knowingly aired false claims that “recklessly disregarded the truth” and defamed it.

Fox has said that it stands by its 2020 election coverage and that its broadcasts are protected by the First Amendment.

Lawyers for Fox have included debunked election fraud claims in their defense. Dominion has claimed Fox failed to fully produce evidence before trial.

In a counterclaim filed Thursday, Fox said Dominion has no evidence to support its “staggering” damages claim and argued that Trump’s claims were “undeniably newsworthy.” Fox News viewers recognized that the claims were being reported as allegations, the network said.

It also said Dominion’s suit takes quotes from its coverage out of context and ignores its reporting of Dominion’s rebuttals to the false claims.

“Dominion’s lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment and the free press,” Fox wrote in its filing. “The record shows that Dominion’s central allegations are factually unfounded, legally unsound, or both.”



Fox News stars and staffers privately blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows (nbcnews.com)
 
Rupert Murdoch trynna start a civil war to make money offa it. We all saw the James Bond movie and read the Tom Clancy books, based on the real life William Randolph Hearst story (started a real war-Spanish American). But, Faux plays to people who haven't read shit and last movie was Peter Pan
 
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In private, Fox News stars and staffers blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows
Internal communications from Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others are part of Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network.
230216-sean-hannity-se-1102p-b9ce09.jpg

Sean Hannity said, according to the legal filing: “That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.”

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Employees at Fox News knew that claims blaming election fraud for Donald Trump’s 2020 loss were outlandish and false, even as the network continued to promote them as credible, a newly unsealed court filing appears to show.

The document, which pulls from a host of internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage, includes comments and quotes revealing that producers, executives and stars of the network knew that the election wasn’t stolen and that many fraud claims were bogus. The communications suggest that Fox News zeroed in on fraud claims as a way to boost ratings and appease their conservative viewership, who some at the company believed abandoned them after President Joe Biden won in Arizona.


According to the filing, Bill Sammon, Fox News senior vice president and managing editor of the Washington bureau, told a colleague in December that “it’s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things.”

The filing is the latest to be made public in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, one of the largest manufacturers of U.S. voting equipment, against Fox News.

Dominion has been a frequent target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Its suit includes hundreds of pages documenting times that the network lobbed bogus allegations against the company, among them that its software was rigged against Trump and that the company was secretly owned in Venezuela.

“There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan,” Fox said in a statement Thursday evening.

The newly unsealed messages and comments are the starkest evidence yet that many at Fox were aware that the election fraud claims didn’t have basis in fact and offer a unique window into the chaotic post-election period at the network.

Even certain hosts who sometimes embrace conspiracy theories on their shows said in private that they knew that Sidney Powell, who filed election lawsuits to stop multiple states that Joe Biden had won from certifying their elections, was not telling the truth, according to the filings.

Dominion is also suing Powell for defamation.

Tucker Carlson told a producer soon after the election that Powell “is lying,” the documents show. He would text Fox host Laura Ingraham the same thing later in the month, adding that "it's insane" and "it's unbelievably offensive to me. Our viewers are good people and they believe it."

Sean Hannity said, according to the legal filing: “That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.”

Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night, but the filing notes that she was spreading clearly unreliable evidence of her Dominion claims even before she was interviewed.

In an email Powell shared with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo ahead of an appearance on the network, a "source" advances allegations about Dominion alongside claims that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died earlier that year of a heart attack, had been murdered in a "human hunting expedition" and that she communicated with "the Wind."

Bartiromo responded to Powell that she had shared this "very imp[ortant] info with Eric Trump."

Ron Mitchell, a top executive overseeing prime-time programming and ratings, privately told colleagues that the Dominion claims were "bs." He called Powell and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani "clowns," per the filing, and joked that they "left out Ernst Stavro Blofeld," a James Bond villain.

Even Fox’s internal fact-checks after the election found that claims of election fraud were “incorrect” and “not evidence of widespread fraud.”

Dominion has said that to increase viewership, the network knowingly aired false claims that “recklessly disregarded the truth” and defamed it.

Fox has said that it stands by its 2020 election coverage and that its broadcasts are protected by the First Amendment.

Lawyers for Fox have included debunked election fraud claims in their defense. Dominion has claimed Fox failed to fully produce evidence before trial.

In a counterclaim filed Thursday, Fox said Dominion has no evidence to support its “staggering” damages claim and argued that Trump’s claims were “undeniably newsworthy.” Fox News viewers recognized that the claims were being reported as allegations, the network said.

It also said Dominion’s suit takes quotes from its coverage out of context and ignores its reporting of Dominion’s rebuttals to the false claims.

“Dominion’s lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment and the free press,” Fox wrote in its filing. “The record shows that Dominion’s central allegations are factually unfounded, legally unsound, or both.”



Fox News stars and staffers privately blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows (nbcnews.com)
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This not looking good for them at all, I hope Dominions get every damn dime they are suing for.
 
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Rupert Murdoch trynna start a civil war to make money offa it. We all saw the James Bond movie and read the Tom Clancy books, based on the real life William Randolph Hearst story (started a real war-Spanish American). But, Faux plays to people who haven't read shit and last movie was Peter Pan
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I can't stand that greedy old filthy Auk.... and the cacs that work for him... :hmm:


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This not looking good for them at all, I hope Dominions get every damn dime they are suing for.
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All the "expert" lawyers are saying that defamation cases are notoriously hard to prove cause you have to prove that they "acted with actual malice".... but this one is the strongest they've ever seen.... the text messages..... and the evidence just keeps piling on.... lord knows I want them to win, and get awarded more than the $1.6 million they're asking for


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Fox Stars Privately Expressed Disbelief About Election Fraud Claims, "Crazy Stuff."

"...a firehose of direct evidence..."
"...one of the best-supported claims of actual malice we have ever seen in any major-media case..."


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