Dominion Sues Fox News for $1.6 billion - Still Considering Suits against Fox personalities

[essentialsaltes]

Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the cable news giant tried to shore up its flagging ratings by falsely claiming that Dominion had rigged the 2020 election.

In the lawsuit, Dominion argues that Fox News, which 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,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Associated Press.

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. Unlike Dominion’s, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County.

Dominion lawyers said that they have not yet filed lawsuits against specific media personalities at Fox News but that the door remains open. Some at Fox News knew the claims were false, but their comments were drowned out, lawyers said.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Good!

 

[Joyous Song]

As the line between News reporting has grown far too political and interpretative (with adding a warning of such) and the populace less skillful of sorting facts from opinion, suing news sources maybe the only way to end this but it will have to go beyond Fox News I suspect to succeed. They are not the only ones posting opinion and farces for News just more blatant.

 

[Ringo84]

Dominion will never have to produce a single voting machine ever again. They'll be rolling in cash after so many not-so-smart people, both on air personalities and private citizens, disparaged their company because they believed the word of a liar.

Good for them. They deserve to rake in some cash for that nonsense.
Ringo

 

[essentialsaltes]

Dominion now suing NewsMax and OAN. Great tidbit:

A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit.

Dominion sent OAN two retraction demands within a week of the video being posted, according to the lawsuit, pointing out that Solomon lacks any expertise and is a convicted felon. The lawsuit says OAN "quietly removed" the video and story from its website, but it can still be found on OAN's Rumble page, a popular video platform for Trump supporters, where it bears the title "Smoking Gun." Solomon has continued to post YouTube videos of election analysis and math lessons for months. His most recent stream from early July, "The Mirror of Maricopa; Is there a parametric line?" is 11 and a half hours long.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Dominion will never have to produce a single voting machine ever again.
Ringo

Well, who wants a voting machine that can be hacked by a thermostat.

 

[NxNW]

Dominion now suing NewsMax and OAN. Great tidbit:

A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit.

Now Democrats want to take away our swingsets!

 

[Fr. Appletree]

Yes, Dominion, the incompetent or malicious makers of voting crap that is totally unreliable and exploits government lowest bid rules. That same Dominiom with years of bipartisan criticism which now suddenly became the bees knees to a few self serving morons.

 

[Nithavela]

Yes, Dominion, the incompetent or malicious makers of voting crap that is totally unreliable and exploits government lowest bid rules. That same Dominiom with years of bipartisan criticism which now suddenly became the bees knees to a few self serving morons.

You better watch out, or they'll sue you too.

 

[Fr. Appletree]

You better watch out, or they'll sue you too.

Seriously, lol.

 

[Fr. Appletree]

As the line between News reporting has grown far too political and interpretative (with adding a warning of such) and the populace less skillful of sorting facts from opinion, suing news sources maybe the only way to end this but it will have to go beyond Fox News I suspect to succeed. They are not the only ones posting opinion and farces for News just more blatant.

Fox news will probably win the lawsuit. There is too much out there about Domion already. HBO'S documentary, as well as court cases from prior elections where Dominion got trounced for unreliable machines.

 

[Nithavela]

Fox news will probably win the lawsuit. There is too much out there about Domion already. HBO'S documentary, as well as court cases from prior elections where Dominion got trounced for unreliable machines.

The real question won't even be if Dominion machines were unreliable or not.

The question will be if Fox did its due diligence in ensuring the information they got was correct for presenting it to its viewers. If fox knowlingly sent out false information, it doesn't matter if Dominion is still guilty of something else. If Fox can show that it had good reasons to believe its informations to be correct, it doesn't matter if those information turn out to be false.

That's the real matter of this lawsuit.

 

[Fr. Appletree]

The real question won't even be if Dominion machines were unreliable or not.

The question will be if Fox did its due diligence in ensuring the information they got was correct for presenting it to its viewers. If fox knowlingly sent out false information, it doesn't matter if Dominion is still guilty of something else. If Fox can show that it had good reasons to believe its informations to be correct, it doesn't matter if those information turn out to be false.

That's the real matter of this lawsuit.

I doubt that Dominion had a good case. The 1.6 Billion is probably to try to force a settlement without much court wrangling.

 

[NxNW]

Yes, Dominion, the incompetent or malicious makers of voting crap that is totally unreliable and exploits government lowest bid rules. That same Dominiom with years of bipartisan criticism which now suddenly became the bees knees to a few self serving morons.

Link?

 

[Jimmy D]

Yes, Dominion, the incompetent or malicious makers of voting crap that is totally unreliable and exploits government lowest bid rules. That same Dominiom with years of bipartisan criticism which now suddenly became the bees knees to a few self serving morons.

Who are these morons that you mention?

 

[Whyayeman]

Self serving morons

I don't suppose they will be any good at it then.

I have not found any bipartisan criticism. It all seems to come from one source. It would be helpful to cite articles from a broader base.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

Self serving morons

I don't suppose they will be any good at it then.

I have not found any bipartisan criticism. It all seems to come from one source. It would be helpful to cite articles from a broader base.

Not sure what you are reading, but many republicans in Arizona find it an embarrassment.

 

[wing2000]

Yes, Dominion, the incompetent or malicious makers of voting crap that is totally unreliable and exploits government lowest bid rules. That same Dominiom with years of bipartisan criticism which now suddenly became the bees knees to a few self serving morons.

Vying to be part of the lawsuit?

 

[wing2000]

Not sure what you are reading, but many republicans in Arizona find it an embarrassment.

Yea, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors (4 of 5 are Republican) have issued numerous statements criticizing the entire effort.

latest example...

"Board Chairman Jack Sellers lambasted the Senate's ongoing audit of the county's November 2020 election and the inexperienced contractors they hired to do the work, saying that if they "haven't figured out that the election in Maricopa County was free, fair and accurate yet, I'm not sure you ever will."

"The board has real work to do and little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land," Sellers said in a prepared statement."

Arizona audit: Maricopa County, Dominion won't comply with subpoenas

 

[essentialsaltes]

Dominion has also sued Giuliani, Powell and the CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow over the claims.

LINK
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected requests from former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that he dismiss lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against the three.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, swept aside the initial claims put forth by the defendants for why the suits should be tossed