Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Far-right cable TV outlet Newsmax and the voting machine company Smartmatic settled a defamation lawsuit stemming from claims by Newsmax that the 2020 election was rigged, the cable operator announced Thursday.
The amount of the settlement was not immediately disclosed.
It's the latest in a series of such settlements related to the election and false claims that the results were somehow tabulated unfairly or suspiciously.
The deal came as jury selection had begun in Wilmington, Del., Thursday. Smartmatic sued Newsmax over its baseless claims of election fraud and filed a similar suit against Fox News, which also furthered unsupported claims that the contest had been "stolen" from President Donald Trump. No claims of widespread vote ballot tampering or voter machine malfunctions or irregularities were proven.
"Accordingly, statements regarding Smartmatic software or voting machines altering the results of the election are factually false," Judge Eric Davis of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in his 57-page decision. "Reports and investigations conducted by multiple state and federal agencies since the election universally...
We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. When you use our sites and apps, we use cookies to: provide our sites and apps to you authenticate users, apply security measures, and prevent sp...