Dominion and Smartmatic defamation lawsuits.

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Dominion and Smartmatic are separately suing a range of right wing... I would say far right wing news news media outlets for defamation!

Fox, Newsmax, and OAN are in the firing line as well as Sidney Powel and Rudy Giuliani.
Fox and Newsmax have already come out and admitted that claims made were not based on evidence.

Now, normally it is quite difficult to prove defamation... but not in this case as the fake news was polluting the airwaves in an unrelenting attack on the minds of viewers who watched right wing media... brainwashing them.

And what fools the right wing media are to think that they could get away with lying to the people.
How stupid they are to not realize the litigious consequences.

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In an era of brazen political lies, Mr. Mugica has emerged as an unlikely figure with the power to put the genie back in the bottle. Last week, his lawyer sent scathing letters to the Fox News Channel, Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately, forcefully clear his company’s name — and that they retain documents for a planned defamation lawsuit. He has, legal experts say, an unusually strong case. And his new lawyer is J. Erik Connolly, who not coincidentally won the largest settlement in the history of American media defamation in 2017, at least $177 million, for a beef producer whose “lean finely textured beef” was described by ABC News as “pink slime.”

''We’ve gotten to this point where there’s so much falsity that is being spread on certain platforms, and you may need an occasion where you send a message, and that’s what punitive damages can do in a case like this,” Mr. Connolly said.

These are legal threats any company, even a giant like Fox Corporation, would take seriously. And they could be fatal to the dream of a new “Trump TV,” a giant new media company in the president’s image, and perhaps contributing to his bottom line. Newsmax and OAN would each like to become that, and are both burning money to steal ratings from Fox, executives from both companies have acknowledged. They will need to raise significantly more money, or to sell quickly to investors, to build a Fox-style multibillion-dollar empire. But outstanding litigation with the potential of an enormous verdict will be enough to scare away most buyers.

And so Newsmax and OAN appear likely to face the same fate as so many of President Trump’s sycophants, who have watched him lie with impunity and imitated him — only to find that he’s the only one who can really get away with it. Mr. Trump benefits from presidential immunity, but also he has an experienced fabulist’s sense of where the legal red lines are, something his allies often lack. Three of his close aides were convicted of lying, and Michael Cohen served more than a year in prison. (Trump pardoned Michael Flynn and commuted the sentence of Roger Stone.)

OAN and Newsmax have been avidly hyping Mr. Trump’s bogus election claims. OAN has even been trying to get to Newsmax’s right, by continuing to reject Joe Biden’s status as president-elect. But their own roles in propagating that lie could destroy their businesses if Mr. Mugica sues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/busi ... x-oan.html?

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Trump may end up with the unenviable title as... The man who destroyed right-wing media!

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Filed in New York State Supreme Court, Smartmatic’s suit seeks at least $2.7 billion in damages. In addition to Mr. Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, Fox News and the three star anchors, it targets Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers who made the case for election fraud as frequent guests on Fox programs while representing President Trump.

In its 276-page complaint, Smartmatic, which has requested a jury trial, argues that Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Powell “created a story about Smartmatic” and that “Fox joined the conspiracy to defame and disparage Smartmatic and its election technology and software.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/busi ... wsuit.html

Now, I know that the far-right freaks on this forum wont comment on this and that's fine because we all know that we have a silent readership... Hi Aussie, Smith, Moth et el

[Texan]

If we can find voting machines that have been sequestered since the election, this could backfire on Dominion and the Democrats. This law suit opens up an avenue for evidence previously denied its day in court.

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If we can find voting machines that have been sequestered since the election, this could backfire on Dominion and the Democrats. This law suit opens up an avenue for evidence previously denied its day in court.

Let's hope so...
It doesn't look good for the far-right freaks though given that they are back peddling and admitting. that it was fake news.

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Thats only on the fake news. ABC CNBC and CBS are all owned by DreamWorks, which is owned by CHINA. The Chinese are feeding us 1/2 of our news.

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Thats only on the fake news. ABC CNBC and CBS are all owned by DreamWorks, which is owned by CHINA. The Chinese are feeding us 1/2 of our news.

Fox News, Newsmax Walk Back Election Fraud Claims After Voting Machine Manufacturer Threatens Legal Action

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcev ... 19e49ccfd2

[Texan]

Just because they are too lazy to back up the claims and avoid the risk of losing a law suit doesn't mean that the claims were wrong.

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Just because they are too lazy to back up the claims and avoid the risk of losing a law suit doesn't mean that the claims were wrong.

Well, they will have there days in court to prove it was voter fraud. It doesn't matter if they back peddle or not... the damage has been done, for which a financial and punitive remedy is sort.

On the upside, OAN News have not back peddled, as yet... they are courting Trump in the hope that he and his money will join their network.

I anticipate that Dominion and Smartmatic will sue Trump also.