• Pro-Trump news network settles election fraud defamation claim with Smartmatic

    According to an announcement from an attorney for One American News Network (OANN), the right-wing news outlet has settled a defamation suit brought by the voting tech giant Smartmatic over false claims about rigged voting machines in the 2020 election. OANN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN that the suit, "Has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement." Also releasing a statement was Smartmatic’s lead attorney Erik Connolly, who said the company, "Has resolved its litigation against OANN...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend says he doesn't 'want to get sued' for election claims

    "Pennsylvania is great!" Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend shouted as he walked down the line of people who hope to attend Saturday's rally in the state. Moments later, he was saying he doesn't want to be sued and dodging questions of election integrity.Right Side Broadcasting Network's Brian Glenn is known as the boyfriend of the far-right lawmaker who recently threatened to take the gavel from House Speaker Mike Johnson. On Saturday, however, Glenn was interviewing Trump rally attendees for...

  • 'He has a tape recording': Fox News host defends Michael Cohen's claims against Trump

    Fox News host Eric Shawn argued that Michael Cohen's claim that Donald Trump made hush money payments to influence the 2016 election was more believable because he had a tape recording of the former president. During an interview on Sunday, former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky asserted that prosecutors in the case had an uphill battle because their star witnesses were former attorney Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying business records...

  • 'Uh': Fox News ridiculed after claiming 'libraries turned into drug-infested sex dens'

    A lot of Americans will be checking out their local libraries after Fox News ran a segment on their transition into "drug-infested sex dens." Host Jesse Watters told his fellow Fox News panelists Thursday that an under-reported crime spree had spread through public library systems and he had one person to blame. "Libraries are no longer safe in [President] Joe Biden's America," Watters declared. The show cut to a brief report on the New York Post's reporting on librarians' safety woes. One...

  • Lara Trump’s RNC robocall falsely claims ‘massive fraud’ in 2020 election

    Call shows the Republican party to be ‘more committed to the big lie than ever’, says Democratic lawyerThe Republican National Committee sent out a scripted robocall on behalf of its new co-chair Lara Trump, falsely claiming Democrats were guilty of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.“We all know the problems,” the RNC call said, according to CNN, which also said the call was sent 145,000 times in the first week of April. Continue reading

  • Voting Technology Company Settles Lawsuit Against Far-right News Outlet Over 2020 Election Claims

    A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in wild conspiracy theories […]

  • Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims

    A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election has settled a defamation lawsuit against a conservative news outlet.

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    Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in

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    Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in

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    Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in

  • Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in […]

  • Voting tech company Smartmatic, targeted by bogus 2020 election fraud claims, settles defamation suit against One America News Network

    Last year, on the eve of a trial, Fox News agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a much larger voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems.