The conservative media leaked false information about the U.S. presidential election in 2020, tarnishing the image of the company Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion Voting Systems, the company in charge of voting machine software during the US presidential election, sued Fox News for defamation, arguing that the news channel spread false information about an alleged election fraud with the aim to increase your audience.
“Fox sold a false history of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, seriously injuring Dominion in the process. It recklessly ignored the truth. In fact, Fox knew these statements about Dominion were lies,” he noted. Dominion in demand.
The aforementioned conservative media, according to the complaint, allowed the guests of its programs to uncontrollably issue wacky claims about the company, as their machines were manufactured in Venezuela to fix the elections thanks to Hugo Chávez.
For all of this, Dominion is claiming $ 1.6 billion in damages for defaming its image. This is the fourth in a series of lawsuits filed by the company against proponents and proponents of conspiracy theories that suggested Democrats had committed fraud in the presidential election and that Dominion had contributed to the arrangement by altering it. voting machines. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, Sidney Powell, one of the former president’s legal representatives who was fired in December, and Mike Lindell, a Trump ally businessman, were also sued by Dominion.
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Allegations of electoral fraud, it should be noted, have been denied. Trump’s team was unable to prove his theory in court for lack of evidence. However, all this rhetoric caused terrible harm to American society. Trump’s campaign over the alleged theft of his victory led to a large group of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, putting the lives of country congressmen at risk.
In February 2021, Smartmatic, another company that offers technology for electoral processes in the country, also filed a lawsuit against Fox News for its $ 2.7 billion “disinformation campaign”.
Fox News Media has stated in a statement that it feels “proud” as a company for its coverage of the 2020 elections and that it will “vigorously defend this unfounded lawsuit in the courts.” In the lawsuit over Smartmatic, Fox has tried to persuade the court alleging that it is trying to “stifle the activities of the First Amendment.” However, the spread of rumors during the post-election weeks can be considered an “electoral conspiracy”. The battle in the courts so far begins.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been sued for defamation