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The Onion’s media company won the auction
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is being auctioned off as part of the bankruptcy proceedings against him for alleged defamation. The sale includes Jones’ studio equipment, his lucrative online nutritional supplement store, domain names, customer lists and some of Jones’ social media accounts. The winning bidder will be selected by a court-appointed trustee after all the…
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A jury ordered Trump to pay $82 million for defaming a columnist
A New York jury on Friday ordered former US President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Carroll for defamation. Last year, Trump was ordered to pay $5 million for defamation by a jury, but this time he has to pay the same amount. The lawsuit was blocked because Trump’s lawyer said he made…
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Trump faces a writer’s lawsuit, which accuses him of rape
Former US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina said, “You can’t let her profit from her abuses of this process and her attempt to deceive you.” Tacopina added, “She’s trying to hold Donald Trump accountable for what he did to her in that dressing room and to “restore her good name”. Carroll has accused Trump…
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Trump is accused of rape in a writer’s suit
US President Donald Trump’s defamation trial began on Monday in a lawsuit filed by actress-model Lewis Carroll, who has accused him of raping her at a hotel room in New York in 1982. Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that Carroll’s claims can’t be proved, and that Carroll was motivated by the potential for book…
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Trump is facing a writer’s suit accusing him of rape
Jury selection began on Tuesday for sexual assault and defamation civil suit filed by E Jean Carroll against former US President Donald Trump. The writer accused Trump of causing “significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological harms, loss of dignity, and invasion of her privacy”. Trump’s lawyers argue that the statute is against the due process,…
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Fox News remains an egregious example of American journalism
Fox News has reportedly agreed to settle a defamation case with Dominion Gaming in US which accused it of promoting conspiracy theories about Dominion’s machines. According to reports, an agreement could be reached between the two companies within the next two months. The lawsuit was filed by Dominion in April 2020 against Fox News over…
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More election defamation suits are on their way in 2020
Fox News has settled a defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems over allegations of ballot-rigging in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The settlement doesn’t require Fox News to tell election lies on-air, according to a representative for the company. Dominion Voting Systems alleged that Fox’s on-air lies destroyed its reputation and is causing election officials…
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There are pending lawsuits against election deniers like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell
Fox News and voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems have agreed to settle their defamation case over their 2020 election coverage. The two companies had sued each other after Fox News falsely alleged that Dominion’s machines threw votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections. Fox News executives…
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The trial will start on Monday
A US voting machines maker has accused Fox News of defamation over comments made by host Sidney Powell and former US Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the days after the 2020 Presidential election. Dominion Systems filed a lawsuit against Fox over 20 comments made on the show between November 8 and January 26. It alleged that…
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Murdoch had a role in sparking the investigation, Fox News apologized
Fox has apologised to the judge in the Dominion defamation case, taking responsibility for the “miscommunication” regarding Rupert Murdoch’s role at the network. The apology comes after the judge had launched an investigation into potential legal misconduct by Fox. Fox had repeatedly said that Murdoch didn’t have a title at the network but last week,…
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Succession might be more entertaining than the Fox News defamation case
A US judge sanctioned Fox News for withholding audio recordings of Maria Bartiromo talking off-air with President Donald Trump’s lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. The judge said Fox failed to disclose key material to Dominion Voting Systems, which filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox after Bartiromo reported on collusion between Trump’s team and Russia…
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A defamation trial against Fox News is about to begin
Fox News’ defence in its $1.5 billion defamation suit against Dominion Voting Systems has suggested that President Donald Trump appeared to be trying to get around the judge by saying that he did not want the case heard in the public eye. Trump’s lawyer had earlier claimed that Trump didn’t want the case heard in…
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Tucker Carlson and Murdoch were correct in their opinion
The jury selection in a $1.6 billion defamation trial against Fox News over its reporting on alleged voter fraud in the US Presidential election will begin on Thursday. Dominion Voting Systems, the maker of voting machines that were used in some battleground states, has accused Fox of defamation. The network has argued the First Amendment…
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Judge lecturing attorneys about dual roles for Murdoch
US-based voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems is suing Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and its parent Fox Corporation for defamation, claiming the channel aired baseless statements about voter fraud during the 2020 election. Dominion’s attorney has asked the court to allow Fox employees to testify about whether they personally believed the false claims against the…
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Stormy Daniels had to pay $120,000 in legal costs for the Trump team
A US court has ordered porn actress Stormy Daniels to pay US President Donald Trump’s legal fees after the two settled their defamation case in 2022. The lawsuit, filed by Daniels, had alleged that Trump defamed her in a tweet about her story of an alleged affair with him during his 2016 presidential bid. Trump…
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A judge won’t proclaim a winner in a defamation case against Fox News
A judge has ruled that a US voting systems company Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News will proceed to a trial next month. The on-air statements from various Fox News Hosts after the 2020 presidential election had accused the company of rigging the election by flipping millions of votes from Donald Trump to…
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The judge in the case won’t proclaim a winner so the trial will proceed
A US court has ruled that the defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, a subsidiary of IBM, will be held next month. “The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about 2020 election are true,” the judge wrote. A trial…
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Judge of Fox News told him to not look like an idiot over Murdoch testifying
Fox News’ Founder Rupert Murdoch was too ill-equipped to testify at a $1.6 billion defamation case against the network, a judge said. However, the judge added that Murdoch had already submitted to seven hours of questioning in the deposition and his trial testimony would not be needed since he had already testified. US President Donald…
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Fox News says a defamation loss would hurt the media
Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for defamation, argued that the case is so strong that a trial isn’t needed. Fox executives knew they were endorsing lies from then-President Donald Trump about election fraud, Dominion’s legal filing revealed. When hosts scrambled to promote Trump’s claims of fraud, Fox Executives seized on…
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Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims
Senior executives of Fox News wanted to stop stars from having Donald Trump’s campaign attorneys repeat their lies on their shows, a court transcript showed. The deposition of Fox News’ CEO Scott Murdoch, who was accused of defamation by Smartmatic, showed how Fox News executives and hosts were after losing viewers to Newsmax, a smaller…
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The Fox News boss faces a potential crisis of confidence, because of the election fraud revelations
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott was asked whether he could have told the channel to stop giving airtime to Rudy Giuliani, a key Trump campaign attorney, according to a court filing in a defamation case against the company. Each Murdoch speaks roughly daily to Scott, she testified. Murdoch was asked whether he could’ve told Fox…
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The election fraud claims that were peddled by Fox News stars were blasted off the air
Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman of Fox Corporation, suggested Fox News CEO Roger Scott to stop airing the Trump Myth that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen, according to court documents. This comes as Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and CNN for falsely accusing the firm of switching…
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Fox News stars trashed the election fraud claims they peddled
Fox News’ lawyer, Eric Sammon, was removed from his job after Smartmatic sued the channel for $2.7 billion for defamation, according to a New York court filing. Sammon was fired on the same day that Smartmatic filed its own $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Dobbs had said Trump’s opponents within government had “treason”…
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The CEO of Fox News warned against making trouble after the election
Dominion Voting Systems’ lawyer told a US court that Scott Davis, a member of Fox News legal team, had said he came off “sarcastic” in an email. Davis apologised to the rival legal teams during a February 8 hearing in Dominion’s defamation suit against Fox, saying he had been surprised to re-read an email in…