The voting machine company previously accused Fox News and other right-wing outlets of a “disinformation campaign” around the 2020 election
The voting machine company Smartmatic on Thursday filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News, some of its on-air stars as well as former Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. In the suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, the company accuses the network and others of waging a “disinformation campaign” about the company’s operations during the 2020 presidential election that was damaging to its reputation. The suit, which names Fox News on-air presenters Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro as defendants, accuses the network and its talent of creating a false narrative about the company to bolster their baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
