The news firm says it reported what others were saying about the presidential election.
While the news operation differed, the company’s top opinion personalities were chief purveyors of the conspiracy theories involving Dominion and others about irregularities in the results of the November election alleged by President Donald Trump.
The motion to dismiss filed in Delaware Superior Court states: “A free press must be able to report both sides of a story involving claims striking at the core of our democracy especially when those claims prompt numerous lawsuits, government investigations, and election recounts.
“When a sitting President of the United States and his legal team challenge a presidential election in litigation throughout the nation, the media can truthfully report and comment on those allegations under the First Amendment without fear of liability. Plaintiffs’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News threatens to stifle the media’s free-speech right to inform the
Fox News claims First Amendment protection in lawsuit by Denver s Dominion Voting Systems
The outlet claims the defamation lawsuit threatens to stifle the media’s free-speech right to inform the public about newsworthy allegations. Author: Colorado Politics Updated: 2:26 PM MDT May 19, 2021
DENVER Fox News is hoping to bounce the defamation lawsuit filed by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems on the grounds of constitutional free speech, the company told the courts Monday.
The news company says it was only reporting what others were saying about the presidential election.
While the news operation differed, the company s top opinion personalities were chief purveyors of the conspiracy theories involving Dominion and others.
The arguments made in a federal court in Denver Tuesday afternoon could offer a forecast of litigation to come over whether the November election was stolen and who bears responsibility if it was, or if the allegations are merely conspiracy theories and defamation.
Denver lawyer Gary Fielder argued for his class-action lawsuit against Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, as well as a nonprofit that helped local governments prepare for last November s vote.
The suit is on behalf of roughly 160 million voters who were deprived of a fair election, Fielder argued. The lawsuit doesn t seek to overturn the election but to collect $1,000 for each voter, or about $160 billion.
Apr 22, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A dispute over the purchase of voting machines tied to unfounded allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election has reached the Ohio Supreme Court.
At issue before the high court is a feud over the purchase of Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems machines between the bipartisan elections board in Stark County and that northeastern county’s GOP-dominated board of commissioners.
Dominion machines became a flashpoint during the election because of unfounded allegations that the company changed votes through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez.
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