Dominion Voting Sues Fox for $1.6 Billion Over 2020 Election Claims
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.
It’s the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment.
Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.
Some Fox News on-air reporting segments have debunked some of the claims targeting Dominion... Still, some Fox News employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. On-air personalities brought on Trump allies Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who spread the claims, and then amplified those claims on Fox News’ massive social media platforms. Dominion said in the lawsuit that it tried repeatedly to set the record straight but was ignored by Fox News.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/912eea8e168f95d51dec02da78ac2760
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This is Dominion's 4th defamation suit (they previous sued Ghouliani, Kracken, and Mydeflated Pillow guy). 
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Fox has been a huge part in creating an alternative reality for a large part of the population.
imagine the information coming out from all that lovely discovering that will be conducted, especially interrogatories, request for documents, request for admissions to name a few and depositions all of which will be done under oath.
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Dominion will have to prove Fox defamed then with “actual malice,” that Fox knew that the reporting was false or acted with reckless disregard to its truth. Should be interesting since Sidney Powell says everyone should have known her stories weren’ true.
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Sullivan, the public safety commissioner in Montgomery, Alabama was suing the NYT when SCOTUS created the actual malice standard, which protects media entities & presumably Fox in this case. If it doesn’t apply, Dominion has an easier path.
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