A judge has dismissed Newsmax's motion to dismiss a defamation case brought by Dominion.
The outlet aired false claims that Dominion software shifted votes away from former President Trump.
The judge wrote that evidence suggests "Newsmax knew the allegations were probably false."
A judge has rejected Newsmax's effort to dismiss a defamation case brought against it by the voting software company Dominion, ruling that the right-wing media outlet pushed allegations of widespread fraud in the 2020 election that it likely knew at the time were not true.
In 2021, Dominion sued Newsmax over such claims, seeking $1.6 billion in damages over claims aired by the network that its vote-counting software had been used to steal the election. Newsmax had sought to have the defamation suit thrown out, arguing it was an attempt to limit free speech.
But in a June 16 ruling, Judge Eric M. Davis of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware wrote that Dominion had provided sufficient evidence for the case to move forward.
In fact, Davis wrote, the company's lawsuit supported "the reasonable inference that Newsmax either knew its statements about Dominion's role in the [alleged] election fraud were false or had a high degree of awareness that they were false."
Davis noted public evidence that the vote was not stolen, including statements from the Trump administration's own Department of Justice. A Nov. 12, 2020, statement, for example, issued by the federal Cybersecurity &...
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