Dominion Voting Systems, a voting technology company that was the target of baseless conspiracy theories claiming they helped “steal” the 2020 election to help elect President Joe Biden, filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing channel Fox News on Friday.
The company alleged that the network “recklessly disregarded the truth” and participated in a disinformation campaign against it because “the lies were good for Fox’s business.” “Fox took a small flame” of disinformation and “turned it into a forest fire,” Dominion said in its lawsuit. “The truth matters.
Lies have consequences,” Dominion’s lawsuit added. “Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring