Dominion: will one Canadian company bring down Trump's empire of disinformation?

[DonViejo]

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica

Sun 4 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT

Dominion has filed defamation lawsuits against several Trump allies for pushing election ‘radioactive falsehoods’ – could it triumph?

When Donald Trump and his allies pushed the “big lie” of voter fraud and a stolen election, it seemed nothing could stop them spreading disinformation with impunity.

Politicians and activists’ pleas fell on deaf ears. TV networks and newspapers fact-checked in vain. Social media giants proved impotent. But now a little-known tech company, founded 18 years ago in Canada, has the conspiracy theorists running scared. The key: suing them for defamation, potentially for billions of dollars.

“Libel laws may prove to be a very old mechanism to deal with a very new phenomenon of massive disinformation,” said Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist. “We have all these fact checkers but lots of people don’t care. Nothing else seems to work, so maybe this will.”

The David in this David and Goliath story is Dominion Voting Systems, an election machine company named after Canada’s Dominion Elections Act of 1920. Its main offices are in Toronto and Denver and it describes itself as the leading supplier of US election technology. It says it serves more than 40% of American voters, with customers in 28 states.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/04/dominion-trump-disinformation-fox-news-sidney-powell-giuliani-mike-lindell-lawsuits

[DFW]

1. I don't care about Trump's disinformation machine. I care about Murdoch's.

Throw a wrench into Fox Noise, and you throw a wrench into the one powerful machine that spews out hate, lies and misinformation with an extremist right wing slant 24/7.

Stop Fox Noise, and I think you diminish Republican votes nationwide between 5% and 10%. That is more than the margin of "victory" that put a LOT of Republican Governors, Senators and Congresspeople in office.

[BComplex]

3. So true! Fox has done every possible thing to destroy this country. Every nook & cranny of

any cohesiveness our citizens shared has been violated by that diabolical nazi.

[onetexan]

7. Goes hand in hand. Any media company spewing disinfo

Needs to be thwarted.

[ms liberty]

2. It's not just "trumps" disinformation machine, it's the

Conservatives/GOP disinformation machine. I hope Dominion destroys them all.

[gratuitous]

4. This may come as a brutal shock

But the popular media could bring down Trump's empire of misinformation today; they choose not to.

[SayItLoud]

5. Cut the last two words and I'm good to go. NT

[erronis]

6. Echoing earlier comments: It's not trump's disinformation - it's the machine feeding trump/fox

It's the mercers, murdochs, putins, oligarchs and plutocrats.

It probably overlaps with the sh1t that went on during Brexit and other attempts to destroy democracy around the world.