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...
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...
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.
On Sunday's MediaBuzz show on the Fox News Channel, host Howard Kurtz brought on ex-NPR reporter Juan Williams to recall his own in-house experience with the radical left inside NPR. Kurtz also noted most of the "mainstream" media have skipped any mention of the hubbub over NPR senior editor Uri Berliner's expose. KURTZ: You know, The New York Times waited the two days and then a did a sort of 'NPR in Turmoil' piece but didn't get into any of the specifics. Nothing in The Washington Post,...
On Sunday's MediaBuzz show on the Fox News Channel, host Howard Kurtz brought on ex-NPR reporter Juan Williams to recall his own in-house experience with the radical left inside NPR. Kurtz also noted most of the "mainstream" media have skipped any mention of the hubbub over NPR senior editor Uri Berliner's expose. KURTZ: You know, The New York Times waited the two days and then a did a sort of 'NPR in Turmoil' piece but didn't get into any of the specifics. Nothing in The Washington Post,...
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, on Sunday on his change of heart when it came to a proposed amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).The House voted to re-authorize FISA in a 273-147 vote on Friday. There had been a push from Republicans, even Johnson initially, to amend Section 702 of FISA, which allows intelligence agencies to gather data on foreigners living abroad. While these agencies can't use Section 702 to...
NEW YORK — Opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President kicked off Monday morning with prosecutors accusing Trump of "election fraud" as the defense asked jurors to take a
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, doubled-down on her efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday amid criticism that her motion is "creating drama" within the Republican Party.Far-right House Republicans, including Greene, had been increasingly critical of Johnson's effort to push a series of foreign aid bills to the chamber's floor on Saturday, where lawmakers passed measures to provide supplemental funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Some GOP lawmakers...
One of the victims in the case now has panic attacks and struggles to sleep
Fox News host Howard Kurtz on Sunday corrected a conservative journalist's claims about pro-abortion Democrats supporting infanticide, a claim he has frequently corrected on-air in recent months.During a Sunday edition of his Fox News program, Media Buzz, Kurtz hosted journalist Caroline Downey, of the conservative magazine National Review, for a discussion about abortion laws in the wake of the recent Arizona Supreme Court decision. The ruling from last week allowed a law banning abortion from...
In a message posted to the conspiracy theory-laden site that he founded, Jim Hoft announced that The Gateway Pundit has declared bankruptcy. “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet," Jim Hoft wrote in the post. In December of 2021 Georgia election workers Ruby...
On Thursday, ABC News moderators Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar took to The View to spew disinformation about Republicans on national television during an election year. The lies included accusations of being “afraid of history,” being communist and “in the bed” with Russia, and wanting to make women property again. Goldberg lashed out at “these little snowflaky people” and, without evidence, accused them of being “the ones that are afraid of information. They're the ones who are afraid of...