Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Smartmatic

Court nixes Fox News’ bid to end voting tech firm’s suit

Fox News has lost a bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Smartmatic's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Can Go Forward

From today's decision by the New York intermediate appellate court in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp.: The causes of action for defamation were based on significant allegations that defendant Giuliani (and defendant Powell, against whom the action has been dismissed) made defamatory statements about plaintiffs' involvement in the 2020…

Reason

Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

WEKU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘Rampant disinformation’ seen undermining safe voting technology

Federal and state officials reduced the risk that voting systems can be breached, but that doesn't stop the spread of such talk.

Roll Call

Why false claims about Brazil's election are spreading in far-right U.S. circles

American election deniers are recycling lies about voting machines to claim Brazil's presidential election is being rigged and to cast doubt on the U.S. midterms.

WEKU

Conspiracists target election officials

Running Texas elections has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown

Salon

Conspiracy theorists and 16-hour days: Inside the stress elections officials face ahead of the midterms

Running elections in Texas has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown — even in small Republican-controlled counties that former President Donald Trump carried.

The Texas Tribune

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Supreme Court won't take up MyPillow head's defamation case

The Supreme Court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems accused MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell of defamation for falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Libel Lawsuit Against Fox Over Claims That Businessman Was "COO" of "2020 Election … Cyber Pearl Harbor"

From Khalil v. Fox Corp., decided Monday by Judge Louis Stanton (S.D.N.Y.): The plaintiff in this action is Majed Khalil, a Venezuelan businessman. During the course of the events giving rise to this action, he was also referred to as "Khalil Majed Mazoud." Defendants in this case are Lou Dobbs,…

Reason

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to face voting fraud defamation lawsuit

MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell must face a defamation suit filed by a voting machine maker that was falsely accused of participating in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

Nicholas Goldberg: Fox News has great power. Did it use it responsibly after the 2020 election?

The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News is now underway in earnest.

Los Angeles Times

Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims

Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion

The Guardian - US

Away from Jan 6 hearings, right wing news channels face a reckoning of their own over false election claims

Proponents of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen are currently facing a very public reckoning. Millions of Americans are tuning in to watch the January 6 House committee outline evidence of a concerted effort by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election.

The Independent UK

Newsmax claims Smartmatic vote-rigging theory wasn’t ‘inherently incredible’

Smartmatic Corp.’s defamation suit against Newsmax Media Inc. over false reports that the voting technology company rigged the 2020 presidential election should be dismissed because there was “nothing inherently incredible” about the theory, the network told a judge.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

Federal Court Sanctions MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for "Frivolous" Legal Claims

A federal district court judge dismissed Lindell's counterclaims against Dominion and Smartmatic, and Lindell may still be on the hook for defamation.

Salon

Trump judge sanctions Mike Lindell

Mike Lindell accused voting machine companies of debunked conspiracy — then sued them for defamation

Tribune News Service

MyPillow’s Lindell sanctioned over ‘frivolous’ election suit

MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell was ordered to pay legal fees and costs incurred by a voting technology firm he accused in a “frivolous” lawsuit of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

Salon

How Trump's "Big Lie" was built

Internal documents show Trumpworld conspiracy theorists knew their claims were disproven, disputed or dubious

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

A Judge Finds a 'Substantial Basis' for the Claim That Fox News Recklessly Promoted Trump's Election Fantasy

The decision allows Smartmatic to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox, two anchors, and Rudy Giuliani.

Tribune News Service

Fox News loses effort to dodge Smartmatic suit over election

NEW YORK — Fox News can’t dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic Corp. over false claims the network aired about the voting technology company’s role in the 2020 presidential election, a New York state court judge ruled.

The Independent UK

‘Crazy like a fox’: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell hit with another lawsuit from voting company

Lindell saw ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to promote election conspiracy theories knowing he would be embraced by millions of unhappy Trump voters, lawsuit claims

Tribune News Service

Voting technology company sues MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for defamation

MINNEAPOLIS — A voting technology company is suing MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell for defamation over his ongoing claims of election fraud in the last presidential election.

The Guardian - US

MyPillow CEO faces defamation lawsuit from second voting machine maker

Mike Lindell is being sued by UK-based company Smartmatic over his claims that it switched votes from Trump to Biden in 2020

1 2 3 4 5

People

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

972 stories

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Dominion Voting Systems

224 stories

Department of Defense

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.