The settlement comes after #FoxNews paid $787.5M to settle a similar #defamation lawsuit in 2023 & #Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40M to settle a #libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, #Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump #ConspiracyTheories on the network.
#Newsmax agrees to pay $67M settlement in #defamation case over #2020election lies
The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading #lies about #Trump’s 2020 election loss, acc/to documents filed Monday.
#law#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#FactCheck#TrumpLies
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-18-Breaking+News
The disclosure came as #Trump vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines such as those supplied by #Dominion & other companies. It was unclear how Trump could [legally] achieve that.
#law #defamation#ElectionLaw#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#VoterSuppression#Trump#FactCheck#TrumpLies
The disclosure came as #Trump vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines such as those supplied by #Dominion & other companies. It was unclear how Trump could [legally] achieve that.
#law #defamation#ElectionLaw#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#VoterSuppression#Trump#FactCheck#TrumpLies
#Newsmax agrees to pay $67M settlement in #defamation case over #2020election lies
The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading #lies about #Trump’s 2020 election loss, acc/to documents filed Monday.
#law#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#FactCheck#TrumpLies
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-18-Breaking+News
The settlement comes after #FoxNews paid $787.5M to settle a similar #defamation lawsuit in 2023 & #Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40M to settle a #libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, #Smartmatic, which also was a target of pro-Trump #ConspiracyTheories on the network.
#Newsmax agrees to pay $67M settlement in #defamation case over #2020election lies
The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading #lies about #Trump’s 2020 election loss, acc/to documents filed Monday.
#law#BigLie#ConspiracyTheories#FactCheck#TrumpLies
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-18-Breaking+News
TIL: Snopes doesn’t actually fact check anymore. They ask the fascists what is true and take their word….
(See LA tow trucks taking ICE vehicles h/t LA resident
@ErickaSimone)
#snopes #factcheck #rightwing #ice#LAProtest
TIL: Snopes doesn’t actually fact check anymore. They ask the fascists what is true and take their word….
(See LA tow trucks taking ICE vehicles h/t LA resident
@ErickaSimone)
#snopes #factcheck #rightwing #ice#LAProtest
Usually, you have to #factCheck every quote/stuff found in the internet: there were fakes long before #AI.
#authors #books #bookstodon#academicChatter #journalism#LLM#ChatGPT
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