https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/26/fox-news-sued-dominion-2020-election-voting-fraud-lies
The North American voting machine company Dominion has hit Fox News with a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit, accusing the network of spreading election fraud lies in a misguided effort to stop an exodus of enraged viewers after Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
The complaint accuses some of Fox’s biggest personalities Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro “and their chosen guests” of spreading “defamatory falsehoods” about Dominion.
Fox supercharged false conspiracy theories about Dominion, the lawsuit says, by plucking the lies from relatively obscure corners of the far-right internet and broadcasting them to tens of millions of viewers on television and online.
“Fox took a small flame and turned it into a forest fire,” the complaint says. “As the dominant media company among those viewers dissatisfied with the election results, Fox gave these fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved.”
Fox vowed to fight
the case in a statement on Friday morning: “Fox News Media is proud of
our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of
American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless
lawsuit in court.”
This will not go away for a simple reason - the hypocrisy is too obvious to ignore.
ReplyDeleteFor 4 years, the liberals insisted the election had been stolen because Trump won. Suddenly in 2020 they insisted that American elections are too secure to be stolen, right after Biden won.
Too many stories have come out about potential tampering. Add to this the blatant censoring of the news from the media and social media and people say "FB, CNN, they're all willing to lie to us so why should we believe them when they say this?"
Yes even Trump's appointees collaborated with Antifa and CNN
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Fox News gets to find out from Dominion, in the pretrial discovery process.
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