# Dominion Voting Systems Files $1.6 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/dominion-voting-systems-files-1-6-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-news/
- Published: 2021-03-27T09:45:36-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: A Dominion Voting Systems machine is seen in Atlanta in 2019 […]. John Bazemore / AP. Article by Merrit Kennedy and Bill Chappell. NPR – updated March 26, 2021. Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, saying the network spread false claims that the voting machine company was involved in voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. “Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to the lawsuit filed Friday in Delaware. “If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.” “Fox endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of verifiably false yet devastating lies about Dominion,” the complaint says, including claims that the company’s software manipulated the results of the 2020 vote. In response, Fox News issued a statement Friday morning stating that it “is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.” […] Click here to view original web page at www.npr.org