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

[essentialsaltes]

I would link the video from places like Fox News,
but you would call it right wing news so why bother.

One reason would be that CF requires that

"All quoted copyrighted material must be linked to the web page from which it was taken."

 

[Whyayeman]

None of these assertions of electoral fraud come anywhere near meeting the crucial test of providing actual evidence. That is why more than sixty courts have thrown out claims of fraud.

The Trump fanatics appear to believe that repeating the allegations over and over again will make them truer.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

They have a large audience because FOX is the most trusted name in news, Tucker C. is fantastic.

I think Fox New's Channel has a huge audience is because people on the channel lie to get a rice from people. Tucker makes things up and is troublemaker. The Fox News Channel won a lawsuit.
Fox Wins McDougal Case, Argues No One Takes Tucker Carlson Seriously (businessinsider.com)

 

[essentialsaltes]

Judge rules against Fox motion to dismiss. Suit can proceed.

 

[Whyayeman]

Did you watch '2000 Mules'? If not please come back when you do.

The maker, D'Souza, is a notorious conspiracy theory pedlar. In 2000 Mules he made blatantly false claims. There has still been no evidence of 'mules' offered to any court anywhere in America. And there is a reason for that. Nobody can produce actual evidence that survives forensic scrutiny.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Fox News stars questioned by election tech company in defamation case

Some of the biggest stars on Fox News are being compelled to answer questions about their coverage of the 2020 presidential election as a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from an election technology company that claims its reputation was ruined by the network’s airing of baseless fraud allegations picks up steam.

Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems last week questioned hosts Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, while former Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs and Fox News’s Sean Hannity are scheduled for depositions on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to court filings.

The company has obtained reams of internal emails and text messages sent by Fox employees, some of which it claimed in one filing provided “evidence that Fox knew the lies it was broadcasting about Dominion were false.” Fox denies this, saying Dominion “cherry-picked” the evidence. Lawyers have posed questions to interviewees that center on the gaps between what they said privately in those messages and what they said on the air to millions of viewers.

....to meet the standard of “actual malice” necessary to prove a case of defamation, Dominion must demonstrate that Fox hosts and executives were aware that allegations of election fraud were untrue and chose to disregard the facts, or that they were reckless in not ascertaining the truth of the matter.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit

The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.

The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.

As one of his last acts in office, Trump pardoned Pirro's husband for two-decades-old convictions for tax evasion.

Dominion and Fox News' lawyers have clashed in recent days, as court records reflect the voting systems company seeks to convince the court to compel Pirro to testify over private texts that, it argues, are relevant to its defamation case.

The wide nets cast by Dominion in seeking depositions suggests, University of Georgia media law professor Jonathan Peters says, that the company's attorneys are "exploring the extent to which Fox personnel published false statements with knowledge of their falsity or with a 'high degree of awareness of their probable falsity,' (the relevant fault standards)."

 

[essentialsaltes]

‘I Did Not Believe It for One Second’: Hannity Testifies Under Oath He Didn’t Buy Trump Election Fraud Claim​

Sean Hannity testified under oath in a deposition that he did not believe former President Donald Trump’s claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 election, according to a piece published by the New York Times on Wednesday.

The paper went on to say that Hannity’s testimony “is among the strongest evidence yet to emerge publicly that some Fox employees knew that what they were broadcasting was false.”

 

[Yttrium]

‘I Did Not Believe It for One Second’: Hannity Testifies Under Oath He Didn’t Buy Trump Election Fraud Claim​

Sean Hannity testified under oath in a deposition that he did not believe former President Donald Trump’s claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 election, according to a piece published by the New York Times on Wednesday.

The paper went on to say that Hannity’s testimony “is among the strongest evidence yet to emerge publicly that some Fox employees knew that what they were broadcasting was false.”

My biggest problem with Hannity has always been that he'll proudly defend something he knows is false with a smug smile on his face.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Trump’s election fraud claims, court document reveals​

The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a Thursday court filing revealed.

The messages, included in a legal filing as part of Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp asserting that the election was rigged.

In one set of messages revealed in the court filing, Carlson texted Ingraham, saying that Sidney Powell, an attorney who was representing the Trump campaign, was “lying” and that he had “caught her” doing so. Ingraham responded, “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].”

The court filing also revealed that Fox News executives had criticized some of the network’s top talent behind the scenes. Jay Wallace, the network president, said that “the North Koreans” did a “more nuanced show” than then-host Lou Dobbs. Jerry Andrews, the executive producer of “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” referred to host Jeanine Pirro as “nuts.”

 

[Whyayeman]

From the article: In a statement Thursday night, Fox News argued that the court filing contained cherry-picked quotes lacking context.

So Fox admits that the quotes are accurate...

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

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.

Filing lawsuits is easy and happens every day. Prevailing in lawsuits is the difficult part.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Via
@oneunderscore__

Sidney Powell relied on a source who used remote viewing or ESP or something as a source of information.

 

[Whyayeman]

Filing lawsuits is easy and happens every day. Prevailing in lawsuits is the difficult part.

$1.6billion law suits are not filed every day. This is very important for Dominion.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

$1.6billion law suits are not filed every day. This is very important for Dominion.

Sure. But I read the latest Motion. That people who worked there privately discussed their own opinions is fine. That all views - Trump's, Dominion's and everyone else's view on this newsworthy issue was aired does not amount to defamation.

 

[Pommer]

Sure. But I read the latest Motion. That people who worked there privately discussed their own opinions is fine. That all views - Trump's, Dominion's and everyone else's view on this newsworthy issue was aired does not amount to defamation.

The network accused the company of stealing the 2020 Presidential Election but (somehow) that’s not defaming it?

 

[Yttrium]

Sure. But I read the latest Motion. That people who worked there privately discussed their own opinions is fine. That all views - Trump's, Dominion's and everyone else's view on this newsworthy issue was aired does not amount to defamation.

It does if the views expressed by the Fox personnel are defamatory. I mean, duh.

 

[Whyayeman]

Sure. But I read the latest Motion. That people who worked there privately discussed their own opinions is fine. That all views - Trump's, Dominion's and everyone else's view on this newsworthy issue was aired does not amount to defamation.

Privately? There was nothing private about it. It was broadcast as fact.

 

[DaisyDay]

Privately? There was nothing private about it. It was broadcast as fact.

Right, what they kept "private" was that they knew they were lying about Dominion. Now, that is out.

 

[trunks2k]

Sure. But I read the latest Motion. That people who worked there privately discussed their own opinions is fine. That all views - Trump's, Dominion's and everyone else's view on this newsworthy issue was aired does not amount to defamation.

Except, it does. Or rather, it presents strong evidence to one of the hardest to prove points in the defamation suit - actual malice.

There's four points that have to be shown by Dominion to prove defamation.

1. There was a false statement made about them
2. The statement was made to a third party
3. The statement was made made with knowing that it was false or there was reckless disregard for the truth
4. The statement caused some sort of harm.

Point #3 is actual malice, and the hardest to prove. There is an extremely high bar for that. These messages are as clear evidence of it - they knew they were repeating/promoting lies, but did it anyway - as you can get.
This is bad, bad, bad for Fox News.