Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Fox News

McRocket said:
A simple headline and you got it wrong.

The headline was in the form of a question.
Not a statement.


I think FoxNews (like ALL MSM) is almost, pure garbage.
But at least I know the difference between a statement and a question.
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And we're all very proud of you, McCockSucker.
 
Nordberg said:
Nope. Lies are not free speech. You can say anything you want in public, but if it causes damage to others you are responsible. They cannot defend their lies. However, they greatly harmed a voting machine business with their lies. They should pay. That is how free speech works. Stop insulting me. It makes you look like a child.
This is not questioning elections. It was saying the machines were deliberately designed to cheat in the election. That is not true. How do they sell machines in the future with that lie hanging over their business? Fox damaged their business and should make them whole.
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It's so bizarre how little understanding they have of the concept of free speech and defamation. This goes beyond 'questioning elections'. You can question anything you want, but you cannot lie to support your supposition. This lawsuit is a winner, and all of the media outlets know it. Some tried to mitigate by admitting they were lying, but the damage is done. This is why there is no actual 'debate' here. Debate requires a basic knowledge of the subject. TDAK does not possess that.
 
Flash said:
If Dominion can prove their comments were false and they libeled or defamed Dominion, they may have to pay a lot of money.

They have already made statements on air saying they have no evidence their accusations are true.
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I wish you would cite that. and is it the Fox political shows (opinions) or the news division?
 
Primavera said:
She is always quoting extremist religious Jews and attempting to pass them off as the only authentic voice of Judaism. Well over 90% of Jews in Israel support Zionism but the slimy cunt can't accept that.
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She wants Israel wiped off the face of the planet (I think there are some words for people like that) and claims that she isn't anti-Jewish. Slimy is the right word to describe such a hateful person who can't even admit that she says the words that come out of her mouth.
 
Diesel
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She wants Israel wiped off the face of the planet (I think there are some words for people like that) and claims that she isn't anti-Jewish. Slimy is the right word to describe such a hateful person who can't even admit that she says the words that come out of her mouth.
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You're , transparently, a lying schlemiel.
NOWHERE can you find any posts of mine to support your mendacity.
Still- as the age-old adage goes ' Fight fire with fire '.

By supporting the illegal activities of the pseudo-Jews of Israel you are, yourself , an antisemite who is contributing to wiping Israel off the map.
That's how you'll be addressed in future , you scurrilous antisemitic schmuck.
 
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moon said:
Listen, schlemiel, I'm not engaging in any attempt at intelligent debate with a misguided prosemitic asshole such as yourself. You're a simple-minded Internet forum smearmonger who supports Israel's illegal occupation, murders, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Israel is a terrorist state . You're never going to be able to accept that no matter what weight of evidence is stacked high before you- so fuck off before I become impolite.

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You don't scare me. You certainly don't scare Israel. So you believe in Israel's right to exist or you don't? In two consecutive posts you said two contradictory things. Which is it? Or don't you have the integrity to say what you mean and mean what you say?
 
moon said:
Diesel



You're , transparently, a lying schlemiel.
NOWHERE can you find any posts of mine to support your mendacity.
Still- as the age-old adage goes ' Fight fire with fire '.

By supporting the illegal activities of the pseudo-Jews of Israel you are, yourself , an antisemite who is contributing to wiping Israel off the map.
That's how you'll be addressed in future , you scurrilous antisemitic schmuck.
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Lol, coming from you, that's like a MAGA racist calling someone else a racist. You can't support yourself, so you're either a liar or a coward.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
That's because many of them have severe mental issues.
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I honestly think they're not ill. Just raised to feel Democrats, libs, whatever want to bring communism to America and indoctrinate their kids. Many of them are unhappy for various reasons. twump came down the escalator and gave them someone to blame for their problems. He also trolled their political enemies 24/7 and they loved it!

They have zero ability to laugh at themselves, I've noticed as well. Colbert, for example lampoons Biden continuously, because Biden can be a goofy old guy. But that doesn't matter because Colber trolls twump as well and that's a "no no".

 
Diesel
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So you believe in Israel's right to exist or you don't? In two consecutive posts you said two contradictory things. Which is it? Or don't you have the integrity to say what you mean and mean what you say?
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Don't talk to me about integrity, you mendacious antisemite. There's never ever anything contradictory about what I post. Never. Ever. Truth doesn't contradict itself, schlemiel.

You should fuck off now and join with your Jew-hating Israel fascist supporters.
 
LurchAddams said:
I honestly think they're not ill. Just raised to feel Democrats, libs, whatever want to bring communism to America and indoctrinate their kids. Many of them are unhappy for various reasons. twump came down the escalator and gave them someone to blame for their problems. He also trolled their political enemies 24/7 and they loved it!

They have zero ability to laugh at themselves, I've noticed as well. Colbert, for example lampoons Biden continuously, because Biden can be a goofy old guy. But that doesn't matter because Colber trolls twump as well and that's a "no no".

[video=youtube;vMFEY7Am2ks]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMFEY7Am2ks[/vide]
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All the evidence you quoted about their behavior and you truly don't think that's whacky?

Consider their demographics: Age, IQ and education. Look at the similarities. They are all dinosaurs who know they are going to die. Fine, that's part of life, but in their case they want to spread as much pain as possible before they go. That doesn't sound mentally ill to you?
 
Dutch Uncle said:
All the evidence you quoted about their behavior and you truly don't think that's whacky?

Consider their demographics: Age, IQ and education. Look at the similarities. They are all dinosaurs who know they are going to die. Fine, that's part of life, but in their case they want to spread as much pain as possible before they go. That doesn't sound mentally ill to you?
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It's not healthy, so I guess it's the opposite. Yep.
 
moon said:
LurchAddams ( manservant )



" Nazi propaganda " ?????? Murdoch is a ZIONIST, you poor dumbass.

Never mind. File it with your other, classic, blunders;







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Haw, haw...............................haw.
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Is Murdock a Jew, Einstein???
Zionism is a Jewish movement.
 
Nordberg said:
Whatever they can fork over and stay in business. They could do what many corporations do in that position. They could claim they are bankrupt and they restart with a new name and the same lying idiots on camera.
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It's up to Dominion to prove harm, along with a dollar amount. That's the amount they'll expect in compensation from Fox.

Not a lawyer, but since they've gotten this far, I'm guessing judges and lawyers agree Dominion has a solid case and that the $1.6B figure is reasonable.

Fox Corp's market cap is over $16B but the Dominion case isn't the only one they are facing. I'm thinking they'll have to offer Dominion a lucrative deal such as $2B on stock plus interest over time that may double what Dominion is asking for.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/11/rupert-murdoch-fox-dominion-lawsuit-deposition
Is Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Fox News?
Murdoch is already grappling with the costly legacy of phone hacking by British newspapers the News of the World and the Sun. His UK company has paid more than £1bn ($1.2bn) over the past decade to keep the gruesome details from being heard in open court with no end in sight after a high court judge earlier this year refused to prevent the filing of new claims.
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https://companiesmarketcap.com/fox-corporation/marketcap/
Market capitalization of Fox Corporation (FOX)
Market cap: $16.53 Billion
 
Joe Capitalist said:
So how many of you MAGA morons believed FoxNews's lies about Dominion voting machines?
Silence is complicity.

https://apple.news/AfONEJ1SzRKyDbLWL8UkEYQ

Dominion Voting Systems is suing the cable news station and its Murdoch-owned parent company, Fox Corp, for $1.6bn over repeated claims that it rigged its voting machines as part of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.
The suit shines a spotlight on Fox News’ part in promoting Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign and its hand in driving the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. But legal experts say that Dominion, which supplied voting machines to 28 states, appears to be building a wider case that Fox News has a long history of misinformation and steamrolling facts that do not fit its editorial line.
Over the past few months, Dominion’s lawyers have been working their way up the tree of Fox News producers, executives and presenters with interrogations under oath about the network’s work culture and its weeks of conspiratorial, and at times outlandish, claims about Trump’s defeat. On Monday, lawyers deposed Murdoch’s eldest son, presumed successor and Fox Corp CEO, Lachlan.
Now, Dominion has reached the top of the tree. Months of accumulated testimony are expected to put Murdoch, the chair of Fox Corp, in the difficult position of either having to deny he has control over what happens at his most influential US news operation or defend its campaign to promote the biggest lie in US electoral history.

The trouble started on election night after Fox called the key swing state of Arizona for Joe Biden. The call drew Trump’s ire and unleashed a backlash against the network from his supporters.
At that point, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned against bowing to pressure to embrace an alternate reality and reverse the Arizona call.
“We can’t give the crazies an inch,” she said, according to court records.
As it turned out, “the crazies” took a mile, as Fox News put a parade of Trump lawyers, advisers and apologists front and centre over the following weeks to promote a myriad of conspiracy theories about how the election was stolen from Trump, including by rigging the voting machines.
Alongside them, some of Fox’s biggest names took up the cry of fraud. NPR revealed that during the discovery process, Dominion acquired an email written by a Fox News producer begging colleagues not to allow one of those presenters, Jeanine Pirro, on the air because she was spreading conspiracy theories about the vote. Pirro, a former district attorney and judge who is close to Trump, continued broadcasting.
Lawyers have also obtained rafts of internal messages that are “evidence that Fox knew the lies it was broadcasting about Dominion were false” and part of a culture of politically loaded reporting and broadcasts far from the network’s claim to be “fair and balanced”.
Dominion claims that without Fox, “these fictions” about electoral fraud would never have gained the same traction among large number of Americans.
“Fox took a small flame and turned it into a forest fire,” the company claims in its lawsuit.
In August, lawyers questioned another presenter, Sean Hannity, who has been described as “part of Trump’s campaign apparatus”. He was grilled for more than seven hours including about a broadcast two weeks after the presidential election in which Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell was a guest.
Powell claimed that Dominion “ran an algorithm that shaved off votes from Trump and awarded them to Biden”. She said the company “used the machines to inject and add massive quantities of votes for Mr Biden”. Powell has also claimed that Dominion used software developed to help the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez steal elections.Dominion has said that it warned Fox News that such claims were false but that it continued to air them in an attempt to assuage Trump supporters out of concern they would move to other right-wing broadcasters.

“It’s an orchestrated effort,” Dominion’s lawyer told a court hearing. “It’s not just on the part of each host individually, but it’s across Fox News as a company.”
Fox argues that Hannity and the other presenters are protected by journalistic privilege but that position has been complicated by the Fox host’s own description of his role.
In defending his overt bias in favour of Trump and Republicans, Hannity has more than once said he is not a journalist but a talk show host, and so does not have to adhere to the profession’s ethical standards. He took the same position earlier this year after the January 6 congressional committee exposed dozens of his messages to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, offering advice and seeking direction as the White House challenged the presidential election result.
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unless they win it, it isn't a blow at all........let us know when the case is decided........
 
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