FOX News is making headlines but for all the wrong reasons.
Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network, alleging that the network ‘purposefully aired false claims’ about the company’s role in the 2020 presidential election in order to boost ratings.
‘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, one of the attorneys representing the Voting systems company.
In the suit, Dominion argues that some of Fox’s on-air personalities ‘elevated conspiracy theories about the voting company rigging the 2020 election’ and allowed ‘falsehoods’ by their guests to go unchecked, including a wild claim that the company’s machines were manufactured in “Venezuela to rig elections for the dictator Hugo Chávez.” Some FOX talking heads also purported that Dominion’s algorithm ‘manipulated’ votes so that then-President Trump would lose.
“Fox engaged in this knowing and reckless propagation of these enormous falsehoods in order to profit off these lies,” reads the lawsuit. “Fox wanted to continue to protect its broadcast ratings, catering to an audience deeply loyal to President Trump.”
Dominion earlier filed election-related defamation lawsuits against Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, as well as My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell.
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