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Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News
(don't shoot the messenger unless you intend to ask questions later)
I'll only quote facts reported in the article rather than any opinion. Each fact is either true or false, regardless of the source that reports it.
1: A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward.
2: Judge Eric Davis of the Delaware Superior Court declined to dismiss Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox News in a significant ruling Thursday.
3: The ruling will now allow Dominion to attempt to unearth extensive communications within Fox News as they gather evidence for the case, and the company may be able to interview the network's top names under oath.
4: Davis called out, in the 52-page opinion, that Fox News may have slanted its coverage to push election fraud, knowing the accusations were wrong.
5: Dominion alerted the network's anchors and executives to information that disproved accusations of widespread vote-switching following Donald Trump's re-election loss, the judge noted.
6: The lawsuit alleges Fox News personalities including Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity and their on-air guests Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell spread lies about fraud in the 2020 election that hurt Dominion's business. It is one of several lawsuits Dominion has brought related to right-wing claims after the election, and is a major win for the company.
Was there bamboo on the ballots? Did the voting machines have constant contact with servers outside the US via Italian satellites?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 21 2021, @06:31PM
Political speech is free speech.
Outright lies and defamation is NOT political speech. It is not a political statement to say that Brand XYZ's voting machines are secretly connected to servers on planet Neptune. That is just an outright lie and defamation. Something that SHOULD ALWAYS be able to be the subject of a defamation lawsuit. Now and into the future. And no matter which foot the shoe is on.
If you have a political statement about how much or little we should tax, or spend, or which bridges we should build or not build, that is great! Speak your mind!
The matter of the Sacklers and oxycontin seems like a criminal matter to me and not a purely political matter. Although politicians might have opinions about it. And they should say things about it if they have an opinion. But . . . protip: don't venture into the realm of defamation or nonsense (the Sacklers were controlled by the aliens from andromeda). Clue: by doing so you could be eliminating the ability for them, and their victims to get a fair trial.
I think brazen politically motivated lies that cause substantial material damage to private companies SHOULD be prosecuted. Especially when the lies are so easily fact checked. Yet a supposed "news" outlet gives a stage to this nonsense, without any fact checking.
I would be fine with a defamation lawsuit in that case, no matter which foot the shoe is on. What is compatible with the Goose is also compatible with the Gander without the need of any special adapters or cables.