: The 2020 presidential election is history, but a legal dispute over Fox News‘ reporting on President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud is heating up [[3]]. A motion for summary judgment by voting equipment company Smartmatic filed tuesday in New York supreme Court laid out in detail how phony allegations that it manipulated votes to swing the election to Joe Biden were amplified on Fox News [[1]].The motion also described how the Fox News Media hosts who are defendants in the suit - Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business – were allegedly committed to helping Trump prove his fraud theories so he could remain in office. Smartmatic is suing Fox news for $2.7 billion in damages, claiming that the network’s airing of the false statements hurt the London-based company’s ability to expand its business in the U.S. Fox News settled a similar suit from Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in 2023. Fox News maintains the network’s reporting on President Trump’s false claims were newsworthy and protected by the 1st Amendment [[2]].
