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Fox News is paying the price for its obeisance to former president Donald Trump. In December, a Delaware judge ruled that the $1.6 billion defamation suit filed by voting-tech firm Dominion Voting Systems could proceed. And on Tuesday, New York state Judge David B. Cohen issued a similar ruling in a $2.7 billion case filed by voting systems firm Smartmatic.
“At this nascent stage of the litigation,” wrote Cohen in his ruling, “this Court finds that plaintiffs have pleaded facts sufficient to allow a jury to infer that Fox News acted with actual malice, since it conceivably had a ‘high degree of awareness of falsity’ or ‘serious doubts as to the truth’ of the statements made.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/09/fox-news-smartmatic-lawsuit-trump-lie/
“At this nascent stage of the litigation,” wrote Cohen in his ruling, “this Court finds that plaintiffs have pleaded facts sufficient to allow a jury to infer that Fox News acted with actual malice, since it conceivably had a ‘high degree of awareness of falsity’ or ‘serious doubts as to the truth’ of the statements made.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/09/fox-news-smartmatic-lawsuit-trump-lie/
