Dominion Voting Files $1.6B Lawsuit against Fox News

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Eric Coomer, Director of Product Strategy for Dominion Voting Systems, demonstrates one of the company’s voting machines, in Harrisburg, Pa., April 26, 2018. (Sharon Bernstein/Reuters)

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, accusing the cable news outlet of falsely claiming that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election in order to bolster the station’s ratings.

The suit, which is the first the voting company has filed against a media company over pervasive false claims that arose after the election, including that Dominion had used algorithms to change votes in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to manipulate elections for Hugo Chavez.

Dominion claims in the suit that Fox News “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to The Associated Press

While several Fox News on-air reporting segments have debunked a number of inaccurate claims regarding Dominion, the voting company claims some at the outlet knew the claims were false but their comments were drowned out.

Lawyers for Dominion told the AP they have not filed lawsuits against specific media personalities at Fox News yet, but are considering doing so.

“The buck stops with Fox on this,” attorney Stephen Shackelford said. “Fox chose to put this on all of its many platforms. They rebroadcast, republished it on social media and other places.”

Dominion says that Fox News used inaccurate claims to explain former President Trump’s loss after having suffered a post-election slump in viewership and receiving criticism from some Trump voters that it was not being supportive enough of the 45th president.

“This was a conscious, knowing business decision to endorse and repeat and broadcast these lies in order to keep its viewership,” attorney Justin Nelson told the AP.

However, a number of election officials nationwide, as well as Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia and Trump’s attorney general William Barr have all said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, the false claims resulted in harassment for a number of Dominion’s employees, including some death threats. 

The company has suffered “enormous and irreparable economic harm,” lawyers said. 

Smartmatic USA, another voting technology company, has also sued Fox News over election claims. 

The legal action against Fox News follows other suits filed by Dominion against Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani as well as the CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell.

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2 Comments

  1. Don’t expect any honest people to believe that BS from dominion. pedo joe and his call girl couldn’t win an HONEST election for dog catcher if there were only 3 voters. pedo joe wouldn’t be able to decide who to vote for

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