Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for Over $2.7 Billion

Photo: A Smartmatic representative demonstrating the company’s vote-processing system in 2018. Credit… Bob Andres / Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press. Article by Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Smith. The New York Times – Feb. 4, 2021.

Smartmatic accused Rupert Murdoch’s network of promoting a false narrative about the 2020 election that damaged the company.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation and three of its popular anchors are the targets of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed on Thursday by a company that became a prominent subject of discredited theories about widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Smartmatic, an election technology company, filed the suit in New York State Supreme Court against the Fox Corporation, Fox News, and the anchors Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. As part of the same action, the company is suing Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who made the case for election fraud as guests on Fox programs while representing President Donald J. Trump. […]

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