A judge on April 16 announced a one-day trial delay in the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems brought against Fox News. Here’s a guide to what’s at issue, who’s involved and what terms you need to know to decipher the legal jargon.
Ahead of the scheduled proceedings, we’ve compiled a guide to help you make sense of this lawsuit.What is Dominion suing over?
In its lawsuit, Dominion Voting Systems argues that, to boost the network’s ratings, Fox News defamed Dominion by broadcasting numerous false claims that the company’s voting technology had rigged the 2020 presidential election. "Fox endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion," read
. It alleged that Fox said Dominion rigged the election using its voting equipment and told its viewers that:Dominion is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for the dictator Hugo Chávez;Fox has argued that its broadcasts were protected by the First Amendment’s protections for the media, saying that it was trying to cover the news, which included claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that a national election was rigged.
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