In the lawsuit, Dominion argued that Fox and several of its on-air personalities elevated baseless claims 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” and 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 filed the lawsuit in Delaware, where both Dominion and Fox are incorporated.
Smartmatic, another voting-technology company, filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit in February against Fox News and several of its most prominent commentators over what Smartmatic chief executive Antonio Mugica called a “disinformation campaign” about the presidential election.
Dominion had already filed election-related defamation lawsuits against Trump-affiliated attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, as well as MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell.
(Excerpt) Read more in: The Washington Post