When you're looking at $4.3 billion in lawsuits, it's hard not to blink.
So when ex-President and forever liar Donald Trump trotted out his claims of a stolen election at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, Fox News ran a disclaimer under Trump's yammering face saying, “The voting system companies have denied the various allegations made by President Trump and his counsel regarding the 2020 election.”
The lawsuits came about following Fox News's repeated airing of ludicrous conspiracy theories, many of them pulling in potshots at voting-system companies, from conservative pundits supporting Trump's Big Lie.
Dominion and Smartmatic, both major makers of voting systems, filed richly deserved lawsuits for libel against the media company. Dominion filed for $1.6 billion; Smartmatic filed for $2.7 billion.
From this side of the fence (the outside), it seems there is no doubt whatsoever that both companies would win in court -- if ever a broadcast outlet lied with malicious intent, Fox News did, repeatedly.
Mediaite.com, which we haven't noticed till now, says that the disclaimer ran for 38 seconds.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-cpac-trump-disclaimer_n_60ebb9d1e4b07afbc3492083
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