Fox News lawyers are asking a New York judge to file a smartmatic defamation against the cable network – arguing that the voting technology firm is a “failed business” in search of a “Judicial Lottery Ticket”.
“Smartmatic is not rule,” Fox News lawyers argued in their motion for a summary judgment that was set up Wednesday at the State Court in Manhattan.
In April 2023, Fox News and her parent company, Fox Corp, agreed to pay $ 787.5 million to resolve a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, who accused the network of fake claims that its cars manipulated US Presidential Elections 2020.
In February 2021, SmartMatic filed a $ 2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its parent of the corporation, as well as some of its armies, claiming that they consciously transmitted false claims that SmartMatic marked the 2020 elections in favor of Joe Biden.
Fox News is a branch of Fox Corp, which shares an ordinary owner by posting Corp news parents.
Fox News argued in the motion for summary judgment that the issue of SmartMatic defamation cannot be compared to the lawsuit.
“Unlike Dominion, SmartMatic was a failed business without a considerable presence in the United States entering the 2020 presidential election,” the network lawyers said in the court’s submission.
He described SmartMatic as a company “united in a decade of business failure” due to “inadequate technology, lost certificates and involvement in multiple controversial choices”.
Fox also noted in court documents that the smartmatic leadership had been under federal investigation into bribes and money laundering, and that its witnesses had called for fifth amendment more than 200 times.
In his own motion for summary judgment that appeared at the Manhattan State Court on Wednesday, SmartMatic accused Fox News, the hosts of “systematically promoted the inflammatory and false narrative that SmartMatic … had set software across the United States to steal votes from President Trump”.
“While Fox claimed that SmartMatic manipulated a national choice, the truth is undeniable. SmartMatic … only functioning in Los Angeles County …” wrote the company’s lawyers in court documents, adding that “its cars were not connected to the Internet.”
Smartmatic gave a statement to the post which claimed: “Fox consciously and with the intention of staining smartmatic in the past, and they consciously and intentionally try to stain it today.”
“SmartMatic is a global company with a long record decades in nearly 40 countries, supporting safe and transparent elections for billions of voters worldwide,” the company said.
Last August, three smartmatic executives were accused of receiving $ 1 million in bribes for a former Philippine election official to secure the country’s business, according to federal prosecutors in Florida.
The president and co-founder of SmartMatic Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, and two co-defendants were charged with foreign bribes and money laundering, the Justice Department said.
Martinez has denied wrongdoing and moved to dismiss the case against him.
SmartMatic was not charged and charged with wrongdoing. He said in a statement that “while our accused employees remain innocent until they are proven guilty, we have placed both employees in the leaves of absence, effective immediately.”
“No voter fraud has been claimed and Smartmatic has been indicted,” the statement said.
Fox claims in court documents that they face “near financial collapse and indictment”, SmartMatic looked at the trial against the network as a “lottery ticket” to recover the solvency.
Unlike Dominion’s legal action, SmartMatic lawsuit is being contested in New York, where the first protection of change for journalists are powerful.
Fox also claims in his movement letters that the discovery process dismantles the smartmatic narrative to be an electoral power plant of $ 2.7 billion.
The company claims that there is “no evidence that the Fox News coverage made a single, existing or possible customer refuse to do business with SmartMatic.”
The company added that the reputations of the SmartMatic reputation preceded them during any Fox coverage and included “years of providing electoral services to corrupt regimes in Venezuela”.
Fox also claimed that his broadcasts do not meet the legal definition of defamation, let alone rise to the level of current malignancy.
“No reasonable jury could reveal that the coverage of Fox News was active slander,” the company said, arguing that segments justified President Trump’s claims for elections.
Fox Corp, the parent company, is not responsible, according to Fox lawyers, who noted that its leadership – including President Emeritus Rupert Murdoch and CEO Lachlan Murdoch – had no role in the editorial decisions quoted by SmartMatic.
Last month, Cable Outlet Newsmax Media said in a regulatory appearance that she paid $ 40 million to resolve the allegations that Smartmatic reports false claims that the polling station company helped manipulate the 2020 elections for Biden.
Companies were privately set up last year, but the amount was discovered in a Newsmax investors’ document dated March 7.
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