a major lawsuit against fake news is due to open this Tuesday

2023-04-18 13:00:00

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The election machinery company is suing the conservative channel for defamation for relaying accusations of electoral fraud in 2020.

From our correspondent in the United States, Claire Meynial

Activists from the Media Matters group deployed mobile billboards in front of the premises of Fox News, on the eve of the opening of the trial of the conservative chain, accused of defamation by the company Dominion.
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Published on 04/18/2023 at 1:00 p.m.

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S’there was a lawsuit that was to define America’s relationship to information, and in the 2020 presidential election, that would be the one. Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network was scheduled to start Monday morning, it was postponed a day. Dominion, an election machinery company, is suing Fox News, the chain of Australian-born tycoon Rupert Murdoch, for libel, from which it is asking for 1.6 billion dollars. After the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden, the channel’s hosts and guests claimed on air that Dominion had participated in voter fraud to steal the election from the incumbent president.

Sunday evening, it was learned that the trial would not begin until Tuesday because Judge Eric Davis, of the Superior Court of Del…