In March of 2021, Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network.

This is a quote from that $1.6 Billion lawsuit.

“Dominion contends that: (i) Fox intentionally provided a platform for guests that Fox’s hosts knew would make false and defamatory statements of fact on the air; (ii) Fox, through Fox’s hosts, affirmed, endorsed, repeated, and agreed with those guests’ statements; and (iii) Fox republished those defamatory and false statements of fact on the air, Fox’s websites, Fox’s social media accounts, and Fox’s other digital platforms and subscription services. Dominion seeks punitive and economic damages for defamation per se.”

Trump Lost

At the center of this lawsuit is the “Big Lie.” Even though there was no evidence of voter fraud or faulty voting machines, Trump supporters, including Fox News, repeated the lie again and again. 

Dominion attempted to “set the record straight,” but Fox continued the lies. This caused Dominion to lose millions of dollars in business, damaged its reputation, and resulted in death threats against company officials and employees.

Proving Malice

The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, protects News Corporations. The bar to prove that News organizations commit defamation or slander is very high. It was set with a Supreme Court Ruling, “The New York Times v. Sullivan.” 

Dominion lawyers must prove that Fox News acted with Malice in this lawsuit. Some legal experts are predicting Dominion could win. 

Background

In the 2020 election, Dominion provided voting machine technology in over 28 states, including more than 50 New York counties.

Listed in the lawsuit as “Relevant NonParties,” Fox Hosts Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity; and Guests Sidney Powell and Rudolph Giuliani,

No Proof, But Lots of Lies

From the Lawsuit:

“Dominion sent dozens of  “SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT” emails to Fox.  Separately, fifty-nine specialists in election security publicly rebutted Fox’s claims about Dominion.

Despite Arizona and Georgia’s audits confirming the Dominion machines’ accuracy, Mr. Dobbs and Mr. Hannity again brought on Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Powell to assert their claims that Dominion rigged the election by changing votes in its machines.

On December 1, 2020, then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr stated that the DHS and DOJ found nothing substantiating the claim that voting machines were programmed to skew election results.

Fox continued to host Ms. Powell, and Mr. Giuliani and Fox personnel endorsed their fraud claims. In the two weeks after Fox news declared President Biden the president-elect, the network questioned election results or pushed conspiracy theories at least 774 times. Fox reported that by mid-December, seventy percent of Republicans thought the election was rigged because of voter fraud.”

Links Below

There are some great articles on the evidence that Dominion has gathered including the e-mails and text messages between the “big bucks” talking heads. And  promised podcast listeners I the link to the 1964 Supreme Court Case, New York Times V. Sullivan.