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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Dominion v Fox News: what’s at stake in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit

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Fox News says the channel’s coverage of 2020 election conspiracy theories is protected by free speech. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

One of the most-watched media trials in decades gets under way on Tuesday, after a delay, as Fox News, and potentially Rupert Murdoch, find themselves forced to reckon with the channel’s airing of false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

Dominion Voting Systems, which provided election machines to 28 states in the 2020 presidential election, claims Fox News damaged its business when it aired conspiracy theories that those machines were used to rig the election in favor of Joe Biden.

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