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

[turbinetree]

Adam Gabbatt in New York
Mon 4 Jul 2022 03.30 EDT

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Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion
In the months following the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.

There seemed to be little consequence for peddling the most outrageous ideas on primetime.

But now, unfortunately for Fox News, One America News Network (OAN), and Newsmax, it turns out that this brave, new world wasn’t free from legal jurisdiction – with the three networks now facing billion-dollar lawsuits as a result of their baseless accusations.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jul/04/fox-oan-newsmax-lawsuits-election-fraud-claims

We will see what happens.....

[usonian]

1. It's Capitalism, Comrade!

Say what you want, but when it costs me money, your ass is grass.