In the wake of the 2020 election, the machinery of disinformation began spreading the Big Lie that a massive and coordinated electoral fraud campaign led to President Trump’s defeat. Some of this disinformation came from his legal team as well as the president himself, and these false claims were amplified and spread by far-right broadcasts on networks such as One America News Network (OAN) and Fox News. While politician Sarah Palin recently failed in a defamation suit against the New York Times, a company called Dominion Voting Systems Inc. may well succeed in its defamation suit against these two news organizations.
Each news organization trained its sights on Dominion Voting Systems Inc., a manufacturer of voting machines used in 28 states. The accusations were so vile and repetitive that Dominion filed defamation suits against Fox, OAN, and attorney Sidney Powell, a member of Trump’s legal team, among others. In the suit against Fox, Dominion stated that “[i]f this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does." In its filing on OAN, the complaint argued, “OAN helped create and cultivate an alternate reality where up is down, pigs have wings, and Dominion engaged in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote.”
After the 2020 election, Powell alleged that Dominion’s voting machines were unreliable, hacked, or flipped votes. When she tried to get the Dominion’s defamation case dismissed, the...
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