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Dominion Voting Systems is officially suing Fox News as a part of its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
This lawsuit includes the following characters: Mike Lindell,the My Pillow Guy, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, L. Lin Wood and Michael Flynn, Sr.
Washed Up 45's campaign has relentlessly spread misinformation about the election. It led to the company getting death threats. It also played a huge role in the insurrection on Jan. 6.
So on Friday, Dominion filed a federal lawsuit against Fox, arguing the far-right cable network falsely claimed in an effort boost ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 elections.
It's the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by Washed Up 45 and his cronies in the aftermath of his lost ot Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur the insurrection which led to the U.S. Capitol being under siege. The siege led to Washed Up 45 being impeached for the second time.
Dominion argues that Fox amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, "sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process."
"The truth matters. Lies have consequences,: the lawsuit states. "Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process. If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster then nothing does."
Even before Dominion's lawsuit on Friday, Fox News had already filed four motions to dismiss other legal action against its coverage. And anchor Eric Shawn interviewed a Dominion spokesperson on air in November.
"Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court," it said in a statement on Friday.
There was no known widespread fraud in the 2020 election, a fact that a range of election officials across the country — and even Washed Up 45’s attorney general, William Barr — have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Washed Up 45 and his allies were dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which has three of his nominated justices.
Still, some Fox News employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. On-air personalities brought on Washed Up 45's allies Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who spread the claims, and then amplified those claims on Fox News' massive social media platforms.
Dominion said in the lawsuit that it tried repeatedly to set the record straight but was ignored by Fox News.
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The company argues that Fox News, a network that features several far-right personalities, pushed the false claims to explain away the former president’s loss. The cable giant lost viewers after the election and was seen by Washed Up 45 and some supporters as not being supportive enough of the Republican.
Attorneys for Dominion said Fox News' behavior differs greatly from that of other media outlets that reported on the claims.
"This was a conscious, knowing business decision to endorse and repeat and broadcast these lies in order to keep its viewership," said attorney Justin Nelson, of Susman Godfrey.
Though Dominion serves 28 states, until the 2020 election it had been largely unknown outside the election community. It is now widely targeted in conservative circles, seen by millions of people as one of the main villains in a fictional tale in which Democrats nationwide conspired to steal votes from Washed Up 45, the lawsuit said.
Dominion’s employees, from its software engineers to its founder, have been harassed. Some received death threats. And the company has suffered “enormous and irreparable economic harm,” lawyers said.
One employee, Eric Coomer, told the AP he had to go into hiding over death threats because of the false claims. He has sued the 2020 campaign, conservative media columnists and conservative media outlets Newsmax and One America News Network.
Dominion has also sued Giuliani, Powell and the CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow over the claims. A rival technology company, Smartmatic USA, also sued Fox News over election claims for a similar sum of money. Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County.
Dominion lawyers said they have not yet filed lawsuits against specific media personalities at Fox News but the door remains open. Some at Fox News knew the claims were false but their comments were drowned out, lawyers said.
“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.”
The suit was filed in Delaware, where both companies are incorporated, though Fox News is headquartered in New York and Dominion is based in Denver.
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