[Peace-discuss] Fallout from the Big Lie

[Szoke, Ron]

NPR, Updated March 26, 2021, 11:14 AM ET 

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, saying the network spread false claims that the voting machine company was involved in voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

"Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process," according to the lawsuit filed Friday in Delaware. "If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does."

"Fox endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion," the complaint says, including claims that the company's software manipulated the results of the 2020 vote.”  

[ N.B. The Sidney Powell Defense Maneuver : Her creative & innovative defense against the defamation charges in the voting machine company lawsuit was that  what she said on Fox in  defense of the Trumpian lies about a rigged, fraudulent & stolen election was POLITICAL FREE SPEECH advocacy & obviously so absurd & ridiculous that no normal, reasonable person could have taken it seriously. — RSz. ]  
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