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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 03:29 PM Feb 2021

Voting technology company Smartmatic files $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, Rudy Giuliani and

and Sidney Powell over 'disinformation campaign'

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

Updated 1:59 PM ET, Thu February 4, 2021

New York (CNN)A voting technology company swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election filed a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit on Thursday against Fox News, some of the network's star hosts, and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the parties worked in concert to wage a "disinformation campaign" that has jeopardized its very survival.

"We have no choice," Antonio Mugica, the chief executive and founder of Smartmatic, told CNN Business in an interview about the company's decision to file the lawsuit. "The disinformation campaign that was launched against us is an obliterating one. For us, this is existential, and we have to take action."

The lawsuit, filed in New York state court, accused Fox, Giuliani, Powell and hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro of intentionally lying about Smartmatic in an effort to mislead the public into the false belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/smartmatic-fox-news-giuliani-powell-lawsuit/index.html

I hope that this firm demands also that Fix Noise has to be shut down ...............

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Voting technology company Smartmatic files $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, Rudy Giuliani and (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2021 OP
Maybe Faux news and Rudy Rustyeye77 Feb 2021 #1
Well it's about damn time someone sued the hell out of them Beachnutt Feb 2021 #2
Go get em! EndlessWire Feb 2021 #3
Glad to see the FOX personalities being sued, not just the corporation. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #4
Take em to the cleaners. roamer65 Feb 2021 #5
I love the intro to this lawsuit Gothmog Feb 2021 #6

EndlessWire

(6,526 posts)
3. Go get em!
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 04:05 PM
Feb 2021

You should always think twice before disparaging someone to the public. That was a deliberate act.

Do you remember that they were planning to have Ivanka manufacture voting machines in China? I always think of that when I read about these lawsuits against them. The idea seems to have fallen by the wayside, but it was in their minds.

Midnight Writer

(21,753 posts)
4. Glad to see the FOX personalities being sued, not just the corporation.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 05:14 PM
Feb 2021

Until real people start feeling the consequences, the behavior of the corporation won't change.

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