The settlement was more than 3x the company’s total valuation! The CEO would have given it all back, and he and the lawyer find it bittersweet.
Riiight!
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
I can’t believe Fox settled this out of court. Now they have zero recourse.
I wonder if Fox is getting reimbursed.
This is going to be appealed.
There is no way that it is a fair settlement.
I am not sure what went wrong here- but I would rather see Dominion have to validate it’s code in court.
“we would trade it all in a heartbeat to go back in time to get our reputation back.”
Like millions of conservatives destroyed by the Democrat / Woke / Marxist slime machine starting with President Trump.
Ok, give the money back and we will forgive you, at least you will have tried to regain your reputation instead of falsely claiming you would “give it all back” when everyone knows you won’t.
Rupert Murdoch wisely cut his losses and denied them this.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-22-154-01
The massive efforts needed for security:
https://www.placercountyelections.gov/uploads/documents/SOS_Dominion_CISA.pdf
You might like to ask if your local election officials are so zealous and skillful.
Whomever said crime doesn’t pay just wasn’t doing it right.
The States should DUMP Dominion.
Discontinue using the machines and finally TRASH them.
I’d join a support group with that message.
Hmm.. goes on MSNBC ..interesting choice.
Brett Baier
Fox News Host
“There is NO evidence of fraud. None.”
https://www.foxdominionnews.com/what-fox-news-hosts-said-about-dominion-and-election-fraud
Alex Pfeiffer
Fox News Producer
....
“I dont think there is evidence of voter fraud.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/media/dominion-fox-news-allegations/index.html
There are 20 items, of which only numbers 15, 16 and 18 are problematic in my opinion. They all involve Lou Dobbs.
Numbers 16 and 18 are tweets.
Number 16 involves a quote from an embedded document. The quote is defective in the sense that “every Dominion machine...”.
There is no such capability at the voting machine level, only at the higher level tabulating level.
Now should ordinary people who are not computer experts be expected to understand complex computing systems?
Number 18:
Key false quote: “Cyber Pearl Harbor: @SidneyPowell1 reveals groundbreaking new evidence indicating our Presidential election came under massive cyber-attack orchestrated with the help of Dominion, Smartmatic, and foreign adversaries. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs,” Dobbs wrote.
Fox might be protected under Section 230. Twitter is.
Also, is Lou Dobbs Tonight a separate legal entity? It was once part of CNN, and CNN might have retained trademark rights to the name if it once held them.
That leaves number 15:
“Dominion Voting Systems, you have described it with algorithms which were designed to be inaccurate rather than to be a secure system,” Dobbs said. Dobbs was merely repeating the beliefs of his guest.
When doing live broadcasts it is not possible to verify what guests such as Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani say instantaneously. Of course inviting them back after saying dubious things may have legal ramifications.
I think I could happily live with $788 million added to my finances.
From an article on the web:
The claims made in the filing are monumental: The filing, in addition to claiming that Fox News continued to push election fraud lies on air while privately deriding them....
Pfeiffer replied, and said that “many on ‘our side’ are being reckless demagogues right now.”
“Of course they are,” Carlson wrote back, according to the filing. “We’re not going to follow them,” adding “What [Trump]’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
Months later on Jan. 6, 2021, hours after insurrectionists had invaded the Capitol, Carlson once again texted Pfeiffer: “Trump is a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us.”
Carlson, who also had Powell on his show multiple times, at one point texted his producer on Nov. 16 to say “Sidney Powell is lying. F****** bitch.” It’s unclear what specifically Carlson was referring to, as the previous portion of the filing is redacted.
Days later, on Nov. 18, Carlson texted fellow Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. caught her. It’s insane.” Ingraham responded with a text: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].”
On Nov. 22, Fox Vice President Raj Shah texted Carlson’s producer Pfeiffer: “...so crazy right now so many people openly denying the obvious that Powell is clearly full of it.” Pfeiffer responded: “She is a f****** nutcase.”
On the same day, Trump finally disavowed Powell. Later that night, Carlson texted Ingraham that it was he who suggested to the White House that they distance themselves from Powell.
Powell’s source also claimed in this email that she gets her information from experiencing “something like time-travel in a semi-conscious state,” allowing her “to see what others don’t see, and hear what others don’t hear.”
According to the filing, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, emailed CEO of Fox News Suzanne Scott while watching Giuliani spout conspiracies on the channel: “We don’t want to antagonize Trump further, but Giuliani [should be] taken with a large grain of salt. Everything at stake here.”
The filing says reporter Jacqui Heinrich “accurately fact-checked” Trump’s claims in a tweet of her own, pointing out that “top election infrastructure officials” had concluded that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
[I’m just quoting the article.]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3nm5/tucker-carlson-dominion-voting-fox-news-texts
If electors in a state can be “stolen” from Trump or DeSantis, electors can also be “stolen” from one Democrat presidential candidate by the operatives of another Democrat presidential candidate.