Fox-Smartmatic defamation case: What to know (cnbc.com)
FOX News, the fake news channel, just settled a massive lawsuit. Dominion, a company that makes voting machines, sued FOX for defamation claiming FOX knowingly broadcast false claims that Dominion’s voting machines were rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
During discovery it was revealed in FOX emails and testimony that they knew the allegations were false but they broadcast them anyway. Where did the idea originate that the machines were rigged? Donald Trump. Why did they choose to run Trump’s allegations as a legitimate news story? Ratings and profits. They know they have a Trump loving audience, so they knowingly fed them Trump’s false claims. That is fact. FOX’s own internal documents confirm it. Had this case gone to trial, FOX would have gotten clobbered for more than $1B, so they chose to settle for a mere $800M.
Another voting machine company, Smartmatic, has also sued FOX for over $2B with a similar case. Based on what happened with the Dominion case, it’s likely FOX will have to settle with Smartmatic too.
So, there you have it, proof FOX News ran stories given to them by Trump that they knew were false. They knowingly lied to YOU, their audience. They fed you like fish in a Koi Pond.
Well, here’s a shocker for you, the voting machine lie is not the only team Trump lie FOX fed to you. We now know that in the Trump White House, COVID was a great cause for concern. “Shutting down” the economy would hurt Trump’s re-election effort, so they came up with a complex strategy that included false information about COVID, the vaccines, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. They found unqualified doctors to spread misinformation, pumped up their resumes and brought them on board the administration while marginalizing the true experts whose recommendations they didn’t like. They placed those unqualified doctors on TV as experts on FOX News. Now I know why FOX never verified their resumes, they were acting as a propaganda arm of the Trump administration. Who was the architect of this COVID propaganda strategy? Steve Bannon. A recently released transcript of his own words confirm Bannon’s role as the source of much COVID misinformation and conspiracy theory.
For those of you who watch FOX and believed them, don’t feel too bad. You are not alone. A lot of people have been fooled by FOX. But if you still believe them after what was revealed about what goes on at FOX behind the scenes, you are deluded.
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