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A billion here, a billion there: the News/Fox stumbles cost big bucks by any measure

The cost of the phone hacking scandal — er, sorry, the ‘voicemail interception allegations’ scandal — has crossed the £1 billion mark.

Crikey

Shareholder sues Murdoch over Fox claims

"FOX was more concerned about short-term ratings... than the long-term damages of its failure to tell the truth"

Salon

Fox settles with man accused of rigging

"If Fox is required to pay large settlements," it may not be able to stay the same much longer, ex-prosecutor says

Salon

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Fox News settles 2020 election-related defamation suit with Venezuelan businessman

It's not the settlement the media industry has been anticipating, but Fox News has reached an agreement with a Venezuelan businessman whose name was linked to false allegations about voting machines used in the 2020 election.

Los Angeles Times

Mike Lindell now claims MyPillow is ‘doing great’ after complaining to Steve Bannon that ‘political pressure’ was hurting sales

Pillow company CEO has also launched ‘Lindell TV’ to compete in right-wing media sphere

The Independent UK

Court approves 2nd Fox defamation suit

"It will help establish the reckless indifference to truth (or worse)" new Smartmatic case, says Laurence Tribe

Salon

Fox News braces for more turbulence as second defamation lawsuit advances

New York court greenlights $2.7bn suit against news channel by election company Smartmatic over 2020 presidential election lies

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Voting tech firm spotlights Murdochs in defamation suit

A voting technology company suing Fox News is arguing that Fox Corp. leaders Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch played a leading role in deciding to air false claims that the technology helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Fox's Excuses Reinforce Dominion's Defamation Case

Although Rupert Murdoch admits that Lou Dobbs and other hosts "endorsed" the "stolen election" narrative, Fox's lawyers insist that is not true.

Reason

Lou Dobbs’ 2020 election fraud lies could help Dominion Voting’s lawsuit against Fox

Fox Business host Dobbs was a champion of the baroque conspiracy theory that implicated Dominion Voting Systems in election fraud.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lou Dobbs Is the Main Obstacle to Fox's Defamation Defense

The Fox Business host stood out as a champion of the baroque conspiracy theory that implicated Dominion Voting Systems in election fraud.

Reason

Rupert Murdoch Called Trump's Stolen-Election Fantasy 'Really Crazy Stuff.' Fox News Promoted It Anyway.

Hosts and producers privately called Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's claims "complete bs," "insane," and "unbelievably offensive."

Reason

Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled

Fox News stars, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, privately derided then-President Donald Trump's assertion he'd been cheated of victory in 2020, even as the network amplified such claims.

WEKU

Fox News loses bid to dismiss $2.7bn defamation suit over Trump election-rigging claims

Fox News has lost a bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped ‘steal’ the 2020 election from Donald Trump

The Independent UK

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Meet the judge deciding the $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox News

Delaware Judge Eric M. Davis, known for his poker face, is overseeing both Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News and a similar case against the conservative TV network Newsmax.

Tribune News Service

Giuliani, Pirro thrown back into 2020 vote-fraud defamation case

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court reinstated defamation claims against Rudy Giuliani and Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro over false claims they made about voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The Independent UK

Court nixes Fox News’ bid to end voting tech firm’s suit

Fox News has lost a bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump

Reason

Smartmatic's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Can Go Forward

From today's decision by the New York intermediate appellate court in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp.: The causes of action for defamation were based on significant allegations that defendant Giuliani (and defendant Powell, against whom the action has been dismissed) made defamatory statements about plaintiffs' involvement in the 2020…

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Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

Roll Call

‘Rampant disinformation’ seen undermining safe voting technology

Federal and state officials reduced the risk that voting systems can be breached, but that doesn't stop the spread of such talk.

Crikey

Conversations between top lawyer and News Corp execs may be subject to discovery in voting machines case

‘A pretty big screw-up’ by Viet Dinh, Lachlan Murdoch’s top lawyer, could be quite a boost for the Smartmatic and Dominion cases against Fox.

WEKU

Why false claims about Brazil's election are spreading in far-right U.S. circles

American election deniers are recycling lies about voting machines to claim Brazil's presidential election is being rigged and to cast doubt on the U.S. midterms.

Salon

Conspiracists target election officials

Running Texas elections has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown

The Texas Tribune

Conspiracy theorists and 16-hour days: Inside the stress elections officials face ahead of the midterms

Running elections in Texas has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown — even in small Republican-controlled counties that former President Donald Trump carried.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court won't take up MyPillow head's defamation case

The Supreme Court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems accused MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell of defamation for falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump

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