Fox News Won't Be Getting Out of a $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Over Its Rigged Voting Machine Claims
An election technology companys case against Fox News can move forward, with a judge finding substantial basis for the claim that Murdochs network evinced a reckless disregard for the truth.
An election technology company suing Fox News for airing false claims about its role in the 2020 election notched a win yesterday, as a New York judge said much of Smartmatics $2.7 billion defamation case against the network can proceed. There is substantial basis for the claim that, at a minimum, Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about [Smartmatic], unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth, Judge David Cohen wrote in a 61-page ruling.
Smartmatic last year filed a suit against Fox News and Fox Business Network, naming current and former network stars Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, and Lou Dobbs as defendants. The election technology company accused them of damaging its reputation and business with false claims broadcast in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The claims aired on Fox served to bolster Donald Trumps democracy-defying attempt to explain away his loss to Joe Biden by blaming it on faulty or rigged voting machines. The suitone of two massive defamation suits Rupert Murdochs empire is battling as a result of its conspiracy-addled election coveragealso targeted former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, both of whom peddled pro-Trump conspiracy theories about Smartmatic's voting machines on Fox programs.
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