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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:36 PM Feb 2021

Intro: "The Earth is round." Here is the 285-page, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit that election tec


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Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Here is the 285-page, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit that election tech company Smartmatic filed today in state court in Manhattan against Fox, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell: https://smartmatic.com/uploads/Smartmatic_Complaint_Against_Fox_Corporation.pdf

Intro: "The Earth is round."

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Intro: "The Earth is round." Here is the 285-page, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit that election tec (Original Post) soothsayer Feb 2021 OP
What about Hannity and Carlson? blueinredohio Feb 2021 #1
Just wondering aloud... Mike 03 Feb 2021 #2
Says Fox Corporation, Fox News network LLC soothsayer Feb 2021 #3
More like this needed. Hit them in the pocketbooks when they lie! Only way to stop it. dutch777 Feb 2021 #4
Kick dalton99a Feb 2021 #5
The use of plain English is just astounding. No need to use arcane legal jargon when one can..... RussellCattle Feb 2021 #6
Found it really refreshing soothsayer Feb 2021 #7
K&R! SheltieLover Feb 2021 #8
Throw that sack of shit, trust fund baby parasite Tucker Swanson in there. For Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2021 #9

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Just wondering aloud...
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:41 PM
Feb 2021

Those look like mostly Fox Business Channel personalities.

Maybe for some reason Fox News was spared in this lawsuit, or maybe a second is coming?

dutch777

(3,044 posts)
4. More like this needed. Hit them in the pocketbooks when they lie! Only way to stop it.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:56 PM
Feb 2021

There are functionally no consequences for many of these lies in most media. The Trump and Q supporters will follow any fool statement (mirrors are being installed on some house roofs as I type to deflect space lasers, I am sure). There is no meaningful FCC or other ethics body that can or will do anything against broadcast lies. Twitter and FB have reluctantly and finally done some things but I doubt they will stick with it or broaden it unless they too face consequences of some sort for fomenting lies and giving voice ro dangerous conspiracy theories and conspiracies.

I really would like the states' Secretaries of State and local election officials file suits against these sort of folks as well. I think they have been slandered and defamed individually and as a group and have had to suffer deaths threats and questions of their professional skills and dedication that are way beyond the pale of what a public official should have to endure.

RussellCattle

(1,535 posts)
6. The use of plain English is just astounding. No need to use arcane legal jargon when one can.....
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:19 PM
Feb 2021

......recite the facts and make the case perfectly. Compare this to the word salad that Trumps lawyers threw at the courts after the election.

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