Fox News appears to be headed once more to court over the lies involving election fraud it aired about the 2020 presidential race. This time, it's over the false claims that election tech company Smartmatic sabotaged the re-election of then-President Donald Trump.
In April 2023, on the eve of a trial in Delaware in which Fox founder Rupert Murdoch was set to testify, the network and its parent corporation agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.
A flood of revelations from the pre-trial process of discovery yielded damning internal communications. The judge found that network figures from junior producers to primetime hosts, network executives, Murdoch and his son Lachlan knew that Joe Biden had won the election fairly. Yet, they allowed guests to spread lies that Trump had been cheated of victory to win back Trump viewers. Some hosts amplified and even embraced the claims.
Now, an appellate court ruling in New York state is allowing Smartmatic's parallel, $2.7 billion suit to press ahead. The same ruling also dismissed some counts against the network's parent company, Fox Corp.
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