BlackRock, a massive, multi-national investment group, owns both Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.
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Dominion Voting Systems is owned by Staple Street Capital. BlackRock has partial ownership in both Dominion Resources and Fox News Corporation. Dominion Voting Systems and Dominion Resources are two completely unrelated companies.
On April 18, 2023, Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems settled a highly anticipated defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million. The suit was filed in response to false claims made by Fox News about Dominion's voting machines — claims that had fueled conspiracy theories about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Not long after, the claim that both Fox News and Dominion are partially owned by the same entity — BlackRock Investment Group — went viral. An account that, in 2020, pushed many of the same claims that Fox News was sued for promoting in this case was an early source of the claim on April 24, 2023:
Popular conservative Twitter accounts, including pro-Trump actor Kevin Sorbo, re-shared the claim. Possible interpretations for this supposed bombshell discovery were that it was done to hide the truth about the 2020 election being rigged; that BlackRock had it in for Tucker Carlson (whom Fox News fired shortly after the Dominion settlement); that BlackRock was laundering money; or, more broadly, as evidence that BlackRock controls the world.
The only problem with the claim? BlackRock neither owns...
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