Dominion has a strong case against Fox News. That's bad news for (alleged) liars.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This will be fun to Watch

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-trump-lies-may-cost-billions-if-dominion-wins-n1298515?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

One of the lies Dominion accuses Fox of spreading centered on the idea that Dominion rigged the election for Biden. Another involves the claim that Dominion is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chávez (who has been dead for almost a decade).

Dominion has asserted that these statements ruined its reputation and caused significant financial losses. Thus its lawsuit against Fox News for defamation and its demand for over a billion dollars. Defamation law requires that the defendant (in this case, Fox News) made a false statement of fact about the plaintiff (that is, Dominion), which caused the defendant harm and was made with the requisite intent. In this case, the requisite level of intent is actual malice, which means that the defendant knew or recklessly disregarded the fact that its statements were not true.

To make their case that the company was defamed, attorneys working for Dominion deposed Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro last week. This week, those lawyers expect to have host Sean Hannity and former host Lou Dobbs testify under oath in depositions. Dominion will likely try to get them to admit that they knew what they were saying was false. They are also likely to try to compare what they said privately with what they said on the air to show that they must have at least recklessly disregarded the falsity of their statements....

In this case, proving Fox News had actual malice depends on showing that its executives or hosts had actual malice. Part of the way to do that is to depose some of the people who allegedly spread the lies at the heart of the case and those who refused to do so. In addition to its strategy of having the above-named Fox hosts give depositions, it appears Dominion’s strategy also includes interviews with past and former employees of Fox who questioned the story that Dominion rigged the election for Biden. Fox’s defense, meanwhile, seems to be that its on-air personalities were merely reporting an important story: former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen.......

Dominion has a strong case against Fox News. That is good news for voters and bad news for (alleged) liars.

[TheRealNorth]

1. I hope they bankrupt all these Faux SOB's.

[Midnight Writer]

2. You gotta figure a company that sells voting machines relies on its reputation.

Nobody wants to buy a machine that has a bad reputation.

I expect Dominion did suffer gigantic losses because of this campaign of known lies, and I hope they destroy these phony conservative "news" people.