Dominion Voting Systems , the company which supply balloting machines for the 2020 election , has slapped Fox News with a $ 1.6 billion defamation causa . In a 443 - page complaint , print bythe Associated Press , the company provides ream of evidence that Fox broadcast Twitter - sourced confederacy theory about the machines in the full knowledge that the claims were disproven . It ’s bespeak damages for , among other thing , surety expense for siccing the hound on the company , which claim its employees have received death threats .
It ’s also seek redress for lost profit and enterprise time value and expense for combatting misinformation . The lawsuit adds to three old over - billion - dollar lawsuits againstRudy Giuliani , Trump lawyer and QAnon adherentSidney Powell , and MyPillow CEOMike Lindell , who ’ve all open baseless lies on Fox , often without pushback .
For instance , Fox Business web mainstay Maria Bartiromo clip out Sidney Powell , who shared the unproved claim that Democrats conjure “ massive numbers ” of votes from stagnant people . “ They had this all plan , Maria . They had the algorithms , ” she say , reference the bogus Democrat - Dominion conspiracy .
Screenshot: Lou Dobbs on Twitter
“ Sidney , these are unbelievable charge that you are making this dawning , ” Bartiromo remarked . “ We , of course , will be following this . ”
Mike Lindell claimed to Tucker Carlson : Dominion “ hire hit mathematical group , bots and trolls ” to take down MyPillow and then added : “ We have all the evidence … I presume Dominion to process me because then it will get out faster . So this is — it — you know , they don‘t — they don‘t want to talk about it . ”
Carlson : “ No they don‘t . ”
Sean Hannity , giving Powell a little twinkling to circulate her Dominion lies : “ I have go over everything I have been able to feel out , nobody liked Dominion Voting Systems . Nobody . The prof . The three Democrats . The State of Texas . They had problems in Georgia . The New York Times . The AP . Why would we apply a organisation that everybody agree sucked or had problems is beyond me . ”
Jeanine Pirro , blowing past publicly - available info : “ The President ’s lawyers alleging a company called Dominion , which they say started in Venezuela with Cuban money , and with the help of Smartmatic software , a back door is open of flipping votes … These are serious allegations , but the media has no pastime in any of this . ” Dominion states numerous times in the complaint that it is not assort with challenger Smartmatic and that Dominion was establish in Toronto .
PART ONE : The most authoritative part of democracy is to do it correctly . The most important question tonight is did we in 2020?#OpeningStatementpic.twitter.com / AtYWTHiuiS
— Jeanine Pirro ( @JudgeJeanine)November 15 , 2020
Dominion concludes that Fox sent in the goofball because its ratings had tanked after it called the election for Biden , and Trump ordered followers to abandon the connection . “ In the brass of vivid backlash and viewers beginning to flee to rival internet , Fox understood that it needed to embrace and amplify the lies that had begun to circulate about Dominion , ” the complaint reads . It go forward :
To fan the flame , Fox turn to Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani , neither of whom were official White House spokespeople and both of whom were promoting a baseless slanderous run against Dominion , claiming that the election had been stolen by vote - flipping algorithms in Dominion machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig election for Hugo Chávez . As Fox well knew , Powell and Giuliani were facially unreliable sources and their claims were laughable , inherently unbelievable , and technologically impossible . Powell was and is such an obviously unreliable source — and her claims about Dominion were so inherently improbable and outlandish — that those very same Trygve Lie resulted in Tucker Carlson publicly mocking her for conk out to produce grounds to support them . In secret , Lou Dobbs himself “ raised questions about Powell ’s claims to others . ”
And here ’s Lou Dobbs calling Powell a “ great American , ” asking her where a whimsically “ removed ” “ rule server ” is located , which makes perfectly no good sense :
The Battle for the White House:@SidneyPowell1celebrates a court victory for@realDonaldTrumpin Georgia which block up Dominion voting machines in 3 counties from being wiped.#MAGA#AmericaFirst#Dobbspic.twitter.com / YYEOjp7PON
— Lou Dobbs ( @LouDobbs)November 30 , 2020
territorial dominion order that the Trygve Halvden Lie not only damaged its reputation but that the conspiracy theories fueled personal attacks , so much so that it further employees to play from home and “ protect their societal media profiles ” against haunting threat of violence . It quotes tweets from now - inactivate Twitter accounts , such as :
GOP DEALS IN FACTS … AND JUDGE PIRRO IS SUCH EMBODIMENT OF INTEGRITY … devilocrats and lucifers msm and dominion elector fraud will not see the light of day in TRUMP‘S WHITE HOUSE , !
And :
Obvious fraud corrupt election , eye witnesses , computer science expert , technical school experts testifying about corrupt dominion voting automobile and smartmatic computer software , a 12th grader can see what‘s going on , the only matter transparent about this election is the shammer , to quote Lou Dobbs !
Fox is facinga separate$2.7 billion suit by unaffiliated balloting system Smartmatic and filedmotionsto dismissalong with Maria Bartiromo , Judge Jeanine Pirro , and former host Lou Dobbs .
Smartmatic likewise alleged that “ Fox joined the conspiracy to defame and disparage Smartmatic and its election technology and software . ” Fox noticeably did n’t rebut the charge that it disperse fictive title , but only shared “ matters of public concern . ”
In a program line shared with Gizmodo regarding the Dominion wooing , Fox write : “ FOX News Media is proud of our 2020 election reporting , which stand in the high tradition of American journalism , and will vigorously defend against this idle lawsuit in lawcourt . ”
Dominion ’s attorneys were not immediately uncommitted for comment .
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