Fox News is facing a lawsuit from voting technology company Smartmatic. The suit alleges they defamed the company by inventing a story that the election was stolen from Trump and decided to make Smartmatic the quote villain. Fox has been able to smear people like Hillary Clinton George Soros Barack Obama basically you know all kinds of liberal prosecutors whoever happens to be on the liberal side of American politics at any given point false storylines that omit important facts so it's basically speculation again but I'm happy to run through it just because this I think does explain a lot of the record are you ready?
$787.5 million. (To Dominion Voting Systems, averting a defamation trial that could have been disastrous for the network. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple explains.)
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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