Media empire still faces defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic as shareholders reportedly considering trip to the courts
If there’s one takeaway from the US$787.5m settlement Fox agreed to cough up in exchange for Dominion Voting Systems’ dropping its defamation lawsuit, it’s this: it pays to be a lawyer inAnd there are plenty of both groups, since the media empire and in particular its conservative’s 2020 election conspiracy theories.
In a last-minute settlement on Tuesday, Fox agreed to pay voting equipment company Dominion US$787.5m, ending a dispute over whether the network and its parent company knowingly broadcast false and outlandish allegations that Dominion was involved in a plot to steal the 2020 election.of a trial and a public apology.A global election technology company headquartered in London, Smartmatic, lodged a defamation suit against Fox in February 2021.
Like Dominion, Smartmatic is suing Fox for defamation related to its coverage of Donald Trump’s stolen-election lie, but the company’s lawsuit has so far attracted only a fraction of the attention. On paper, Smartmatic’s suit could be the more dangerous: it is demanding damages of $2.7bn compared with Dominion’s claim for $1.6bn., the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, the former business anchor Lou Dobbs and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Claims broadcast on Fox described Smartmatic as having been founded in Venezuela at the behest of corrupt dictators. In fact, it was founded by Antonio Mugica and Roger Piñate in 2000 in Boca Raton, Florida, in the wake of the
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