Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels

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The Fox News studio in Manhattan on election night in 2020. A defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox.
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Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels
The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.
9:57 AM · Aug 13, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html

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In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have “tremendous evidence” that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election technology whose algorithms, Mr. Dobbs said, “were designed to be inaccurate.”

Maria Bartiromo, another host on the network, falsely stated that “Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company.” Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality, speculated that “technical glitches” in Dominion’s software “could have affected thousands of absentee mail-in ballots.”

Those unfounded accusations are now among the dozens cited in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against the Fox Corporation, which alleges that Fox repeatedly aired false, far-fetched and exaggerated allegations about Dominion and its purported role in a plot to steal votes from Mr. Trump.

Those bogus assertions — made day after day, including allegations that Dominion was a front for the communist government in Venezuela and that its voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another — are at the center of the libel suit, one of the most extraordinary brought against an American media company in more than a generation.

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[Demsrule86]

1. Excellent post...thanks! K&R

[PatSeg]

2. Thanks for posting

I loved this from the article:

'A spokeswoman for Fox News said it was “ridiculous” to claim, as Dominion does in the suit, that the network was chasing viewers from the far-right fringe.'

"Ridiculous" indeed.

[ShazzieB]

12. Ha!

'A spokeswoman for Fox News said it was “ridiculous” to claim, as Dominion does in the suit, that the network was chasing viewers from the far-right fringe.'

Call it whatever you want, hon. Knock yourself out!

[subterranean]

13. It is ridiculous to claim that they're the fringe.

Those far-right viewers are the base of the Republican party, not the fringe.

[PatSeg]

14. Sad but true

There is not republican fringe anymore, they are just republicans!

[Evolve Dammit]

16. They're all the fringe at this point except a very small minority. 45 owns them all.

[emulatorloo]

3. Thank you for posting this. Dominion is right, and Fox needs to pay for it's calculated lies and

propaganda.

[sheshe2]

4. Informative article.

Thank you Mr Hogan for gifting it to all of us to read. I am rooting for a Dominion win!

[Hekate]

5. KnR

[Stuart G]

6. K & R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Please make the Fox propaganda network pay dearly for their damaging lies.

[jaxexpat]

8. May Fox News join the Trump Organization in a permanent state of "deadness".

Sue the life out of them. Then revive them to near death and do it again. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum in perpetuity as a lasting example of those who would intentionally misinform as a means to profit from the gullibility of the foolish.

[Aaeia]

9. Nice Share

Thank you for sharing. Hard when not everyone can afford to get through the pay wall.

Dang those Canucks trying to make the world a better place for everyone! (Sorry, had to let a little pride out.)

[Nevilledog]

10. I always put a no paywall link in my posts.

Figured it was stupid to want people to read stuff if they couldn't actually read it!

[The Jungle 1]

11. So ummm yer saying fox lied????

It would be a story if you said fox told the truth.

[crickets]

15. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be cheering for Dominion, but...

Go Dominion, go! Git 'em.

[Historic NY]

17. I hope they get wiped out and it becomes the Dominion News Network

[summer_in_TX]

18. Considering the constant repetition of the allegations about Dominion

over time and their refusal to stop them for a considerable period (during which time Dominion and others were providing them with truthful information), it seems unreasonable of the law to require proof that the purveyors knew that what they were saying were lies. It seems to me that they didn't know what the truth was but didn't care if it only got them the results they wanted, winning viewers over. In such a case, they knew that it was having a harmful effect on Dominion's staff and their ability to sell machines. Causing harm without proof should be part of the standard for conviction of defamation.

[SouthernDem4ever]

19. When Dominion wins this lawsuit

part of the settlement should be they are made to broadcast all day and night for 72 hours straight how they lied and purposely misled their viewers about election fraud from the mouth of every face that shows up on the network.

[DownriverDem]

20. Notice a pattern

MAGA repubs only complain about voter fraud when they lose. When they win we hear not a peep.