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Fox Facing Another Defamation Suit Re 2020 Election Lies

Posted by Brian and Ellen -19pc on September 30, 2022 · Flag

A federal judge has denied Fox News’ attempt to dismiss yet another defamation suit against the network, this time via Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, for promoting the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

We’ve been closely following the billion-dollar defamation suits by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems over Fox's election lies but somehow this one slipped under our radar.

From The Hill:

Majed Khalil filed the suit last year, alleging statements made on Dobbs’s Twitter account and by Sidney Powell on Dobbs’s show defamed Khalil by accusing him of executing an “electoral 9/11” and helping change ballot counts in voting machines.

Fox moved to dismiss the case. This week, that motion was denied. More from The Hill:

“Defendants repeatedly maintained their claims about Khalil long after Powell’s election fraud theories were challenged,” [U.S. District Court Louis Lee] Stanton wrote in the ruling. “Numerous reports that declared the falsity of the claims against Dominion and Smartmatic and rejected Powell as an accurate source of information gave Defendants reasons to doubt Powell’s veracity and the accuracy of her reports.” 

It's not clear how much Khalil is seeking in damages in the suit.

Stay tuned!

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John McKee commented 2022-10-01 16:26:05 -0400 · Flag
It’s sad that the obvious, blatant crimes of a supposed major news channel are ignored by the authorities and have to be addressed by individuals, groups and companies going through the cumbersome and expensive machinery of proceedings in the civil court. Murdochs delenda est, as Cato the Censor might have put it.








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