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Fox News Forced to Debunk Its Own False Voting Machine Claims Fox Business host Lou Dobbs aired a segment debunking false claims about Smartmatic voting machines over the weekend. Steven Ferdman / Getty Images Fox News and Fox Business just aired multiple segments debunking false election claims made on their shows for weeks after the voting technology company Smartmatic recently threatened to sue the network — along with fellow right-wing cable channels OANN and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs...

The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams. Last week, a lawyer for Antonio Mugica sent scathing letters to Fox, Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately, forcefully clear his company’s name.Credit...Niklas Hallen/Getty Images Published Dec. 20, 2020Updated Jan. 4, 2021 Antonio Mugica was in Boca Raton when an American presidential election rea...

× Share on Facebook Share on Twitter AllahpunditPosted at 2:41 pm on December 21, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter If you missed a similar “clarification” that aired on Fox News and Fox Business this weekend, go watch it now. The point to grasp in both that case and this one involving Newsmax is that news networks would never capitulate to a demand for a retraction unless they feared they were horribly exposed to defamation liability. American defamation law strongly favors media o...

Fox News, suddenly worried about a defamation suit, forced to debunk its own false election claims Salon 12/21/2020 Lou Dobbs Fox Business Fox News and Fox Business just aired multiple segments debunking false election claims made on their shows for weeks after the voting technology company Smartmatic recently threatened to sue the network — along with fellow right-wing cable channels OANN and Newsmax — for defamation. Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and Fox News...

Opinion: The Red Slime Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media The Media Equation Dec. 20, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Antonio Mugica was in Boca Raton when an American presidential election really melted down in 2000, and he watched with shocked fascination as local government officials argued over hanging chads and butterfly ballots. It was so bad, so incompetent, that Mugica, a young Venezuelan software engineer, decided to shift the focus of his digital security company, Smartmatic, which ha...

Newsmax TV aired its own segment fact-checking claims made about those companies on Monday. “Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.,” Newsmax TV host John Tabacco said in the segment. “Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported as true certain claims made about these com...

‘Rolling Over and Showing Your Belly’ May Not Spare Fox News and Newsmax from Smartmatic Lawsuit, Legal Expert Says Adam Klasfeld © Provided by Law & Crime Facing threats of legal action, Fox Business and Fox News ran three stunning and nearly identical fact-checks over the weekend—on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures—appearing to debunk discredited claims about Smartmatic voting machines that aired on those shows. Newsmax followed suit on...

Back to Vote Cuomo announced the new ban this week, which includes the flag, Nazi symbols, and other similar symbols of hate that can no longer be sold in public in New York, though there are some exceptions if they are used for educational or historical purposes. “This country faces a pervasive, growing attitude of intolerance and hate — what I have referred to in the body politic as an American cancer,” Cuomo said. "By limiting the display and sale of the confederate flag, Nazi swastik...

By Michael W. Chapman | December 17, 2020 | 10:56am EST New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) (Getty Images) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed into law on Wednesday legislation that bans the sale or display of "symbols of hate," such as the Confederate flag or the Nazi swastika, on public property in New York, a law that is likely to be challenged as a violation of the First Amendment and free speech. “This country faces a pervasive, growing attitude of intole...

By Michael W. Chapman | December 17, 2020 | 10:56am EST New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) (Getty Images) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed into law on Wednesday legislation that bans the sale or display of "symbols of hate," such as the Confederate flag or the Nazi swastika, on public property in New York, a law that is likely to be challenged as a violation of the First Amendment and free speech. “This country faces a pervasive, growing attitude of intole...