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Court nixes Fox News’ bid to end voting tech firm’s suit

Fox News has lost a bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2023

Smartmatic's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Can Go Forward

From today's decision by the New York intermediate appellate court in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp.: The causes of action for defamation were based on significant allegations that defendant Giuliani (and defendant Powell, against whom the action has been dismissed) made defamatory statements about plaintiffs' involvement in the 2020…

Reason · Feb 14, 2023

Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

WEKU · Jan 23, 2023

Supreme Court won't take up MyPillow head's defamation case

The Supreme Court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems accused MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell of defamation for falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2022

Libel Lawsuit Against Fox Over Claims That Businessman Was "COO" of "2020 Election … Cyber Pearl Harbor"

From Khalil v. Fox Corp., decided Monday by Judge Louis Stanton (S.D.N.Y.): The plaintiff in this action is Majed Khalil, a Venezuelan businessman. During the course of the events giving rise to this action, he was also referred to as "Khalil Majed Mazoud." Defendants in this case are Lou Dobbs,…

Reason · Sep 28, 2022

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to face voting fraud defamation lawsuit

MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell must face a defamation suit filed by a voting machine maker that was falsely accused of participating in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Nicholas Goldberg: Fox News has great power. Did it use it responsibly after the 2020 election?

The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News is now underway in earnest.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 7, 2022

Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims

Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion

The Guardian - US · Jul 4, 2022

Away from Jan 6 hearings, right wing news channels face a reckoning of their own over false election claims

Proponents of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen are currently facing a very public reckoning. Millions of Americans are tuning in to watch the January 6 House committee outline evidence of a concerted effort by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election.

The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2022

Newsmax claims Smartmatic vote-rigging theory wasn’t ‘inherently incredible’

Smartmatic Corp.’s defamation suit against Newsmax Media Inc. over false reports that the voting technology company rigged the 2020 presidential election should be dismissed because there was “nothing inherently incredible” about the theory, the network told a judge.

Tribune News Service · Jun 15, 2022