Two Georgia election workers are suing One America News Network's (OAN) parent company, its top officials and former President Trump's ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani over election fraud claims touted in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, contending that the parties' assertions were defamatory.
Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, who worked as a voter registration officer in Fulton County, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who was a temp worker during the 2020 election, filed a defamation lawsuit against the defendants on Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., according to Reuters.
The lawsuit names Herring Networks, a media company that owns OAN, Robert Herring, the organization's chief executive, Charles Herring, the group's president, and OANN reporter Chanel Rion as defendants. Giuliani is also listed as a defendant.
Moss and Freeman are alleging that OAN aired false stories claiming that the two election workers were plotting to count illicit ballots in an effort to tip the race towards then-candidate Joe Biden, according to Reuters. Those claims, however, have been proven false by Georgia's election officials.
The lawsuit focuses on a claim first touted by a volunteer Trump campaign attorney last December, according to Reuters. Supporters of the president cited a surveillance video from a Fulton County ballot counting center, where Moss and Freeman worked, in which they said the two workers were processing "suitcases" of illicit ballots that were marked for Biden after...
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