Posted on 08/10/2021 10:16:30 AM PDT by Magnatron
Dominion Voting Systems, a technology company that was targeted with disinformation by former President Donald Trump and allies, filed lawsuits on Tuesday against two right-wing television channels, alleging they aided the spread of baseless conspiracy theories about its role in the 2020 election. The lawsuits, which are the latest in a string of legal action from the company, name Newsmax and One America News as defendants. The lawsuit against OAN also named two of the network's far-right personalities, Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb, as well as the network's owners, Robert and Charles Herring. John Poulos, the chief executive of Dominion, said in a statement that the networks "disregarded the truth when they spread lies in November" and that they "continue to do so today."
In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, then-President Trump falsely asserted that the election had been rigged against him. His media allies promoted outlandish conspiracy theories about Dominion to support Trump's false claims.
In its lawsuit against Newsmax, Dominion said that the channel "created an entire brand out of defaming" the company. And in its lawsuit against OAN, Dominion said that for the right-wing channel, "facts did not matter."
"What mattered was feeding the audience the alternate reality OAN had helped create and its audience now expected — even if it was spreading false information," Dominion said in its 213- complaint in the District of Columbia District Court. "And the race to the bottom began in earnest, dragging Dominion down with it."
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YES ! Lets get those discovery hearings scheduled !!
Discovery baby....it’s all about the discovery.
Discovery to Dominion is like Canvas to Maricopa county.
I imagine discovery is going to be interesting
I hope one of these Dominion lawsuits comes to fruition. The discovery phase will expose their machines to an audit and the democrats will try and stop it thereby proving they cheated, or it will come to fruition and prove that the machines were fixed. Either way, Dominion will be exposed.
That’s good I didn’t think of that
Dominion is trying to bully Newsmax and OAN. They will shut up when the lawyers for the news stations demand discovery information, software evidence. This a slow walk, nothing more.
Newsmax already caved to the Dominion VP, Cooner, who was recorded back in March saying he’d prevent Trump’s election:
Newsmax settles a defamation lawsuit from a Dominion executive at the center of election conspiracy theories and issues an apology
https://www.businessinsider.com/newsmax-settles-dominion-executive-eric-coomer-defamation-lawsuit-and-apologizes-2021-4
I thought the Cooner claim was debunked as hearsay?
that’s why Newsmax caved. or, at least, they couldn’t substantiate it.
i’d bet there truly was something to it, but i have no idea
This is the “prove it or pay up” for Newsmax and OAN.
Either they have utterly solid, un-deniable proof to back up all claims or they are in deep trouble.
If you have a business, and I say “EPU is a fraud and a cheat”, you can sue me, and I lose if I can’t prove it.
This will be interesting. The only defense OAN and Newsmax have is proof, and much better proof than anything anybody has seen so far.
There maybe but solid proof is needed or its nothing.
From all the states and counties that have refused to renew contracts with them.
“name one lie, and prove that it’s a lie- that they stated publicly while KNOWING it was a lie?
How are they going to prove it is a lie?”
As one can’t prove a negative, Dominion doesn’t have to. The burden will be on the defendants to prove what they allegedly claimed was true.
“Have these people never heard of “discovery?””
Yes. It was fear of discovery that got Fox to fold.
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