slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Tue, August 10, 2021, 8:16 AM

By Jan Wolfe and Tom Hals

(Reuters) -Dominion Voting Systems Corp on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks, One America News Network and Newsmax Media Inc, saying they defamed the U.S. voting machine company by spreading false claims that it rigged the 2020 election against then-U.S. President Donald Trump.

Dominion also filed a lawsuit making similar allegations against businessman Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive of online retailer Overstock.com Inc.

The lawsuits are the latest legal actions taken by Denver-based Dominion against Trump allies that amplified false theories about the firm.

In each of the three lawsuits filed on Monday, Dominion is seeking more than $1.6 billion in damages, citing lost profits and other harms.

In a statement, Newsmax said, "While Newsmax has not reviewed the Dominion filing, in its coverage of the 2020 Presidential elections, Newsmax simply reported on allegations made by well-known public figures, including the President, his advisors and members of Congress — Dominion’s action today is a clear attempt to squelch such reporting and undermine a free press."

Fox made similar arguments in a May court filing asking a judge to dismiss the case against it, saying that news outlets "must be able to report both sides of a story involving claims striking at the core of our democracy."

Newsmax in April apologized to a Dominion employee for baselessly alleging that he rigged the company's vote counts against Trump. In exchange, the employee, Eric Coomer, dropped Newsmax from a defamation lawsuit.

OANN representatives and Byrne did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump continues to falsely claim that he lost to Democratic President Joe Biden due to rampant electoral fraud, claims that were rejected by multiple courts, state election officials and members of his own administration.

Trump allies, including lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, picked up an online conspiracy theory that Dominion machines were used to hack the election, and made those baseless allegations during appearances on the conservative television stations.

Giuliani and Powell, who have also been sued by Dominion, say they were lawfully exercising their free speech rights.

In a call with reporters, Dominion attorney Stephen Shackelford of the Susman Godfrey law firm did not rule out suing Trump.

"We are still exploring options as to how to hold other participants in the campaign of lies accountable," Shackelford said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dominion-sues-newsmax-one-america-news-over-election-fraud-claims/ar-AAN9BZe?ocid=uxbndlbing

victor doherty

newsmax is not news the best propaganda to dumbing you down.

Carol Kelly

CNN, and so forth all present the world with propaganda all day and night. They spew untruths and never, ever represent the truth. All you anti Americans just remain dumbed down while the country you may have fought for goes down the slide. But you’re taking us down, too, and I cannot tolerate your idiotic posts.

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

Of course they'll sue anyone . It's all they got. Let it go to trial and see what happens. Call their bluff. They are guilty and know it . The MSM is backing their claim of the big Lie. Which has never been proven. The Arizona auditors asked for the codes to get into their machines and even with a court order they still refuse. Why unless there is something to be found in the machines. One hacker proved that the machines can go online which if true is a violation of voting laws. Also Dominion counts votes in decimals instead of whole numbers. Why are they even allowed to do.this? This makes vote manipulation easily possible by working out simple algorithms. In a y future election we should demand using machines that count votes one at a time in whole numbers. and no possible way of being hooked to the internet where anyone with a flash drive can change the vote count.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Then respectfully, Carol, I suggest your not reading my posts and remain truly "dumbed down".

However, enjoy the rest of your day.

BTW, "anti-American" my arse. "True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others."

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I would argue that OAN remains in a close race for that distinction.

victor doherty

cnn is corporate news they don't do propaganda they just don't run story that hurt their profits like net neutrality,where fox oan,newsmax do disinfromation that only dumed down can listen to.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Remind me, what is the Durham report all about?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

The Durham Report, aka Bull Durham, is an exceptional movie based on the lives of minor-league baseball players.

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Wow, who's an anti-American? Do you think trump lost the election or do you believe the fake story that somehow the election was stolen?

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

What about the many Republicans that won? They must have been tricky algorithms?

Carol Kelly

And where does your patriotism rest?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Exactly where it always has: Unequivocally with my nation, the United States of America.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Then we will see where this goes. We welcome the law suits. Discovery will be the end of it, I think.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas