By Helen Coster and Jack Queen
(Reuters) -Fox News repeatedly broadcast lies about vote-rigging claims that it knew were “total bs,” Dominion Voting Systems said in a filing made public on Thursday, as part of the election technology company's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
The media giant countered that the suit was an assault on a free press and that Dominion could not prove its claims.
"From the top down, Fox knew 'the dominion stuff' was 'total bs,'" Dominion wrote, citing a sealed exhibit. “Yet despite knowing the truth - or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth - Fox spread and endorsed these 'outlandish voter fraud claims' about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as 'crazy,' 'absurd,' and 'shockingly reckless.'"
The filing seeks summary judgment, a court ruling in its favor without the need for a trial.
Dominion sued Fox News Networks in March 2021 in Delaware state court, alleging the cable TV network amplified false claims that Dominion voting machines were used to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Republican Donald Trump and in favor of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who won the election.
Fox defended its coverage in its own summary judgment motion unsealed on Thursday, arguing it had a right to report on election-fraud allegations made by Trump and his lawyers and saying Dominion's lawsuit would stifle freedom of the press.
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