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Voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, claims Fox News fanned the flames of false election fraud conspiracy claims in order to drum up business in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Plaintiff Dominion claims it’s a victim of $1.6 billion in defamation perpetrated by Fox News’ post-2020 election coverage.
Indeed, claims of election fraud ran rampant leading up to and after the November election that led to the ousting of the prior administration after a days-long process of vote counting. The company was accused of illegally counting votes in a number of lawsuits filed after Trump lost the election, including in Arizona and Michigan.
The company alleges that Fox perpetuated conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems to increase viewership, reports CNN.
“Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” alleges the lawsuit filed in Delaware Superior Court this week. “If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.”
Dominion says that Fox News, a right-wing media outlet, knowingly perpetuated lies about the company’s voting technology affecting the results of the 2020 election.
“Fox endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion,” claims the lawsuit, which also alleges that Dominion employees have since faced harassment and death threats over the conspiracies spread on Fox News.
In fact, in addition to $1.6 billion in damages, the voting technology company says it had to spend more than $1 million in beefed up security and measures to address election fraud conspiracies.
For its part, a spokesperson for Fox reportedly stated that it will defend itself from Dominion’s election fraud lawsuit, asserting that it took pride in its coverage of the election; however, this is not the first lawsuit claiming the network spread lies in the aftermath of the 2020 vote. In February, Smartmatic reportedly filed a $2.7 billion dollar lawsuit against Fox.
Dominion has also filed defamation lawsuits against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers who worked with Donald Trump in cases alleging voter fraud, reports NPR. They are seeking $1.3 billion in each of those cases.
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Plaintiff Dominion Voting Systems is represented by Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan of Farnan LLP, Justin A. Nelson, Stephen Shackelford, Jr. Elisha Barron, Davida Brook, Emily Cronin, Brittany Fowler, and Stephen E. Morrissey of Susman Godfrey LLP, and Thomas A. Clare, P.C., Megan L. Meier, Dustin A. Pusch, and Daniel P. Watkins of Clare Locke LLP, and Rodney Smolla.
The Fox News Election Coverage Lawsuit is US Dominion, Inc, et al. V. Fox News Network, LLC, Case No. Unknown, in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware.
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