Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch face another giant legal claim over Fox News 'disinformation'. abc730 FergusonNews marinafreri
Smartmatic is a voting technology company that operates across the globe including in Australia. It filed a suit against Fox and a number of its presenters in 2021 after the media organisation broadcast claims that it was part of a widespread conspiracy to rig the 2020 election, in concert with Dominion, another voting technology company.
Mr Connolly commented on the level of damages the company is seeking against Fox. "When you look at the damage done to Smartmatic, I have a company that before this disinformation campaign was conducting and handling elections all over the world in five continents in over 50 countries," he said. But Mr Connolly claims evidence will show that Fox deliberately broadcast false accusations of electoral fraud in a bid to recover audience who had deserted the network.
"I have a significant amount of evidence showing that Fox knew what they were saying wasn't true," he said."My client Smartmatic was in LA County. They provided election services during the 2020 election in LA County and LA County only," Mr Connolly said. "You still see situations where people are running away from election technology, thinking that there's a risk that their vote won't be counted," he said.
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