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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in New York

Fox News produced ‘zero’ evidence to back election lie, defamation case hears

Fox News is accused of defaming Dominion Voter Systems by knowingly spreading false story that its voting machines rigged the 2020 election.
Fox News is accused of defaming Dominion Voter Systems by knowingly spreading false story that its voting machines rigged the 2020 election. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have exchanged further barbs in the $1.6bn defamation case brought by the voting machine company against the rightwing US cable news network over its broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud.

In a court filing, Dominion asked a judge to decide the case in its favour because, it said, Fox News had “produced no evidence – none, zero – supporting those lies.

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