Posted on 12/15/2020 8:30:29 AM PST by 11th_VA
Voting equipment manufacturer Smartmatic on Monday sent legal notices to Fox News and other conservative media organizations threatening legal action if they do not retract stories that have promoted “false and defamatory” claims about the company and its products in the weeks following the presidential election.
In the letters, which were also sent to One America News and Newsmax, an attorney for Smartmatic said Fox “engaged in a concerted disinformation campaign” as Fox hosts and guests have repeatedly pushed discredited conspiracy theories and other misinformation to claim, falsely, that the election was “stolen” from President Donald Trump.
Misinformation about voting equipment has been present since before Election Day, but has surged in the weeks since as Trump and his allies have pursued dozens of unsuccessful legal battles to overturn the results. ..
“Our [legal] efforts are more than just about Smartmatic or any other company,” Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica said in a press release. “This campaign is an attack on election systems and election workers in an effort to depress confidence in future elections and potentially counter the will of the voters, not just here, but in democracies around the world.”
A company official, speaking to StateScoop on background, said that potential contracts worth “potentially hundreds of millions of dollars” with other jurisdictions both in the United States and internationally, have been jeopardized by the misinformation.
Fox News and the other outlets have not responded to the letters.
(Excerpt) Read more at statescoop.com ...
Notice they waited until the day the Electoral College voted, and most everyone thinks Biden will be the next POTUS. Why did they wait this long? More a month of articles and reports on them in the media, yet they only send out letters when they sure sure Trump will not be POTUS in a few weeks.
I don’t know... the “old” Fox would have fought this suit, but I suspect the “new” Fox will just settle.
Well, somebody has his boxers in a twist.
“...yet they only send out letters when they sure sure Trump will not be POTUS in a few weeks.”
Not when they are sure. Only when they think most people are sure (conned).
They won't.
So let them sue. Bet they won’t.
In October the CP dropped $400,000,000 on them to buy controlling interest. , Did the CCP know the machines were that bad or were they soled a bill of goods?
Fine. See you in court. Bring your source code...
Sue, please sue. We will crowdfund the counter suit. Discovery would be very interesting.
He is toast
HA! Good luck with that. 🙄
Exactly - please, PLEASE file a lawsuit. Let’s share with the world what a corrupt system that was developed and who was affecting the outcome.
FREE SPEACH! FREE SPEACH!!
The idiot is bluffing. He knows they’ll DESTROYED in discovery.
“I demand the gov give me an original 427 Cobra”
Demand Drama is just drama by the incompetent
Let them sue. I’ll be happy to donate to fund the defendants.
I’d like to see them sued blue. Wait, they already are.
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