"The earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election ... "

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Fox News braces for more turbulence as second defamation lawsuit advances
New York court greenlights $2.7bn suit against news channel by election company Smartmatic over 2020 presidential election lies

As Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation battles to contain the Dominion lawsuit scandal that has engulfed its top executives and stars, another crisis is building in the wings that has the potential to cause further turbulence for the media empire.

Smartmatic USA Corporation’s lawsuit against Fox News has attracted only a fraction of the attention garnered by the legal action of Dominion Voting Systems. Yet both firms are suing Fox for defamation related to its coverage of Donald Trump’s stolen-election lie, and both pose a serious threat to Fox’s finances and reputation.

In fact, on paper Smartmatic’s suit appears to be the more dangerous. It’s demanding damages of $2.7bn, compared with Dominion’s $1.6bn.

Last week the New York state supreme court in Manhattan gave the green light for the case to proceed against Fox News, the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, the former business anchor Lou Dobbs and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Smartmatic, a global election technology company headquartered in London, lodged its defamation suit in February 2021. “The Earth is round,” was the complaint’s striking opening sentence. “Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election … ”

Smartmatic claims that more than 100 false statements were broadcast by Fox News hosts and guests. Smartmatic was falsely said to have been involved in 2020 election counts in six battleground states – in fact, it was present only at the count in Los Angeles county.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-news?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Death by TKO or death by a thousand cuts. Either way, Rupert

may come to the conclusion that his toy is becoming too much of a nuisance to keep feeding.

Now, I don't expect fox to be bankrupted or go belly-up. But a couple billion here, and a couple billion there... pretty soon we'll be talking real money.