Long before Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for defamation, PolitiFact was fact-checking claims about the election machine maker and its supposed influence over the 2020 election.
Dominion was headed to court April 17 against Fox in Delaware when a judge announced the trial would be delayed a day. Citing unnamed sources, The Washington Post reported the delay was meant to accommodate last-minute settlement talks. Dominion seeks $1.6 billion from Fox in its lawsuit, saying that it "endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion."
Before and after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump and his supporters repeatedly spread baseless claims that Dominion’s election equipment was used to fraudulently tilt the vote count to President Joe Biden.
There was no evidence of widespread fraud, as election officials and court rulings have shown. Dominion alleges that false claims about its equipment have hurt the company’s profits.
In the two-plus years since the election, PolitiFact has debunked numerous claims that alleged Dominion flipped votes from Trump to Biden and manipulated vote counts, or had ties to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and Democratic billionaire donor George Soros. Here’s a look back at what we found.
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