One America News and Newsmax Are Being Sued for Pushing Election Conspiracy Theories

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One America News and Newsmax Are Being Sued for Pushing Election Conspiracy Theories

By News and Guts


The Big Lie might cost One America News and Newsmax big bucks.

On Tuesday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against the fledging right-wing networks, accusing them of pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. OAN and Newsmax have suggested, without evidence, that Dominion rigged voting machines to steal the election from Donald Trump.

The lawsuit against OAN lists two of the networks’ personalities – Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb – as defendants, accusing them of spreading false claims about Dominion. The network “deputized” Rion “as an in-house spokesperson for all Dominion-related content,” according to the lawsuit. In one segment, she called a Dominion executive an “Antifa-drenched engineer hell-bent on deleting half of America’s votes.”

OAN also broadcast “Absolute Proof,” a ‘docu-movie’ produced by conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell alleging (but not proving) widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

After being warned of the lawsuit, OAN scrubbed many of the most incendiary content about Dominion from their website. They’ve threatened to countersue the voting hardware and software company.

Then there’s the suit against Newsmax.

“Newsmax helped create and cultivate an alternate reality where up is down, pigs have wings, and Dominion engaged in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote,” the suit against Newsmax says.

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https://www.newsandguts.com/one-america-news-and-newsmax-are-being-sued-for-pushing-election-conspiracy-theories/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Good.

About time the truth gets out on these propaganda peddlers.

[crickets]

5. 👆👆👆

[SCantiGOP]

2. Hit them in the pocketbook

Only way to stop this egregious abuse of freedom of the press.

[PortTack]

3. 'Bout time!

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. I wonder how much they can afford to spend.

I wouldn't think their legal department budget would be anything near Fox, CNN or any of the alphabet networks.

Maybe we'll get lucky and this will bankrupt them both. Or at least expose any rightwing sponsors.