Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News are set to square off in Delaware state court this month when the voting machine company's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit heads to trial, and it works to convince a jury that the cable network knowingly defamed it in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion was at the center of conspiracy theories pushed by allies of former President Donald Trump following his loss in the 2020 presidential election, and has argued Fox News defamed it by broadcasting baseless allegations about the company's voting machines and software that it knew were false.
Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, contend that the allegations they were covering were newsworthy, and statements made on the cable network were protected by the First Amendment.
Next week's trial will kick off over two years after Dominion filed its lawsuit against Fox News, which has already resulted in the release of text messages and emails exchanged by some of the network's top stars. The messages showed how they viewed the allegations of fraud, their colleagues in the news division, and even the former president himself.
Both sides requested the judge overseeing the case, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, rule in their favor based on the evidence already developed. Late last month, Davis ruled that the evidence demonstrated it is "CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true," and the statements from Fox...
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