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I guess if you tell or allow to be told on your network, outrageous lies about voting machines with no basis in fact whatsoever, there will be billions of dollars of consequences. Especially when you cause actual damage, and with actual malice. Anyone who has seen Fox News can understand "actual malice".
Judge Rejects Fox News’ Motion To Dismiss Smartmatic Defamation Lawsuit
A New York judge rejected Fox News’ efforts to dismiss a $2.7 billion lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, which sued over the network’s amplification of unfounded claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election.
Judge David Cohen also declined to dismiss Smartmatic’s claims against host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs. [...]
“Even assuming that Fox News did not intentionally allow this false narrative to be broadcasted, there is a substantial basis for plaintiffs’ claim that, at a minimum, Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs, unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth,” Cohen wrote in his 61-page opinion. (Read it here).
[....] The network also is facing another defamation lawsuit from another company, Dominion Voting Systems, over post-2020 election claims. A Delaware judge in December declined to toss out that lawsuit.
To point it out, you can read the judge's opinion right here.
And boy does that have good stuff in it that crazy ACs should read. Judges have an education.
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Then this . . .
Four men who were conspiring to kidnap the Michigan governor. The FBI learned about it on social media. No, the FBI didn't "create" the situation. They learned about it. Please try reading facts instead of Fox News.
Trial starts for 4 men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 are heading to trial with opening statements beginning Wednesday.
Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta face federal charges of conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor. Fox, Croft and Harris face additional charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction including explosive devices, according to court documents. Croft and Harris are also charged with possessing destructive devices -- counts added in a second indictment last April.
All have pleaded not guilty.
The case underscores the political tensions in Michigan that reached new heights as Whitmer faced backlash for restrictions she had imposed in 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Observers have pointed to then-President Donald Trump's rhetoric toward the governor and her state, including a tweet in which he called on residents to "liberate" the state from the restrictions.
Wow. Kidnap a state governor because (you are stupid, and...) you don't like masks during a time of pandemic -- and your Lord God and Savior Donald Trump told you to do so.
The world is full of crazy. And ACs do their part to prove that to be true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 09 2022, @09:24PM (4 children)
And I'm looking forward to their plea deal and khallow telling us all why they are not in fact guilty of what they are pleading guilty to.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Thursday March 10 2022, @02:03AM (3 children)
Because plea bargaining has such a sterling reputation in the US, amirite?
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday March 10 2022, @05:25AM (1 child)
I moderated you Touche, but you are in a no-lose situation here. You can either claim vindication or conspiracy from the verdict, just like Trump did. What a role-model.
Unfortunately, we can play that game too. Mutually-assured stupidity?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by khallow on Thursday March 10 2022, @05:42AM
This is a variation of a legal principle called "fruit of the poisonous tree" [wikipedia.org] where evidence is discarded no matter what when it is obtained illegally. Here, we have decades of bad convictions based on plea bargaining. Consider this single sentence from a story [umich.edu] about eventual exonerations of innocent people.
When there's this long history of plea bargaining abuse, it puts every such conviction in doubt.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 10 2022, @08:08PM
What I have learned from khallow, so far:
If declared not guilty by a jury, the defendant(s) is (are) not guilty.
If the accused takes a plea deal, they are not guilty because you can't ever trust the DA/judge to do the right thing.
If the defendant is found guilty by a jury, well, they are still innocent because you just can't trust the legal system here in America.
Hmmmmmm....