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Dominion vs. ‘Russian Collusion’ and ‘Disinformation’
American Greatness ^ | 27 Apr, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/27/2023 4:39:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Massaging a U.S. election by conspiring to concoct a disinformation campaign must be as actionable as Dominion’s postelection claim of $757 million in damages. That's exactly what happened in 2016.

Fox News is reeling, both financially and with respect to its talent, after being drawn into a long lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems.

The network just settled for an astounding $757.5 million and soon after released Tucker Carlson, the network’s highest-rated host.

The voting machine company had alleged some of Fox’s hosts had either promulgated, or allowed their guests to push, a false narrative that the corporation’s voting machines were “fixed” and misreported the vote count in some precincts of the 2020 presidential election.

In other words, Dominion walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars on the accusation that some raving guests and a few Fox journalists insinuated, falsely, that the machines had thrown the election to Joe Biden.

Yet no one argues that such post facto accusations influenced the election. The postelection dispute instead was over whether a news organization was responsible for all that its hundreds of guests and hosts say that proved later to be not substantiated, false, or defamatory.

Fox settled with Dominion reportedly to avoid messy revelations of its internal texts and to stop the hemorrhaging of its brand.

But by doing so, the network may have inadvertently set a dubious standard that any speculative opinion, voiced in public media, however nutty and later proven to be inaccurate, will be actionable.

If that is the standard, we are going to see a lot more costly lawsuits.

Compare Dominion’s writ with the twin “Russian collusion” and “Russian disinformation” hoaxes.

Lots of journalists and guests on network news, cable, public broadcasting, and internet news sites ran daily with the utter lie that the concocted Christopher Steele

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dominion; electionfraud; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 04/27/2023 4:39:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wish Fox had not settled. Now the left will claim that the stolen election claims have been proven false.


2 posted on 04/27/2023 4:39:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 04/27/2023 4:40:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Now the left will claim that the stolen election claims have been proven false.

Correct. The USA can now have banana republic style elections where the designated puppet - no matter how despised - gets 103% of the vote, and nobody will dare question it.

4 posted on 04/27/2023 4:45:55 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MtnClimber

Quote:
“Fox settled with Dominion reportedly to avoid messy revelations of its internal texts and to stop the hemorrhaging of its brand.”

Ironic, ain’t it?


5 posted on 04/27/2023 4:47:57 AM PDT by tsomer (ally )
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To: MtnClimber

And now Dominion and it’s lawyers are millions richer to keep their ruse going and continuing to bastardize the vote. The Citizens of the USA no longer have recourse against the #JihadJunta.


6 posted on 04/27/2023 4:54:37 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: MtnClimber
I wish Fox had not settled.

The Fox is in the henhouse.

FoxSnooze was in on it.

7 posted on 04/27/2023 4:59:09 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Shady
And now Dominion and it’s lawyers are millions richer...

The attorneys for BOTH Dominion and FoxSnooze are millions richer.

8 posted on 04/27/2023 4:59:58 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: MtnClimber
Almost no one after the election swallowed the notion that Dominion had rigged its voting machines.

Really? Almost no one?

9 posted on 04/27/2023 5:37:11 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: MtnClimber
Dominion walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars on the accusation that some raving guests and a few Fox journalists insinuated, falsely, that the machines had thrown the election to Joe Biden.

VDH misses the most important element - they had to know their claims were false when they made them.

10 posted on 04/27/2023 5:48:10 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: MtnClimber

Fox’s rolling over and rushing to settle the Dominion lawsuit doesn’t ‘prove’ anything to me, the least of which is that the voting machines weren’t rigged. Fox has been taken over by crazy sympathizing woke leftists. Son James Murdoch is as loony as they come. Lachlin has a decent head on his shoulders but is outgunned in the Murdoch line-up dynasty. Even the old man doesn’t know what end is up any longer. At 91, one day he’s in love with his latest flame and proposes marriage, and two weeks later he calls the whole thing off. Note the alleged reason for doing so is in this typically long Vanity Fair screed and it may have involved Tucker.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/rupert-murdoch-cover-story


11 posted on 04/27/2023 6:02:07 AM PDT by iontheball
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“FoxSnooze was in on it.”

Yep, and far too many people on our side seem to have forgotten it. They were never on our side, no, not even fan favorite Tucker.


12 posted on 04/27/2023 6:04:11 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C210N

Totally agree!

Dominion will be funneling the $$$ back to FOX NEWS via ad buys or some other crook-hook evil way.


13 posted on 04/27/2023 6:17:30 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: MtnClimber

later


14 posted on 04/27/2023 6:46:58 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Not one of VDH's better pieces at all. He needs to prove his allegations that the Dominion played no part in the theft of the 2020 election.

Very disappointed in his piece. He's becoming a weak-sister with this piece of garbage from him.

Sorry, Victor, but this piece of yours is chock full of BS.

15 posted on 04/27/2023 6:55:11 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MtnClimber
I wish Fox had not settled. Now the left will claim that the stolen election claims have been proven false.

This is all political theater. The left always makes false claims. An out of court settlement proves absolutely nothing other than a lawfare style shakedown was successful.

16 posted on 04/27/2023 6:58:18 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: MtnClimber

Dominion is getting rich counting votes with hacked machines.


17 posted on 04/27/2023 6:59:35 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats like Dominion because paper ballots can’t be trusted huh Moe.


18 posted on 04/27/2023 8:18:53 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Sirius Lee; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; BatGuano; beaversmom; bigfootbob; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Another excellent article from the pen of Prof Hanson.

Massaging a U.S. election by conspiring to concoct a disinformation campaign must be as actionable as Dominion’s postelection claim of $757 million in damages.

Did not Twitter, the FBI, CNN, and MSNBC knowingly try to influence an election by spreading what they must have known was an absurd lie?

And will anyone care except those outside of the Washington power circle?

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19 posted on 04/27/2023 8:20:13 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

bump


20 posted on 04/27/2023 11:52:54 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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