How Fox News, Newsmax vote-rigging coverage squares with defamation law
Posted on AllSides December 26th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
After weeks of sharing baseless allegations that the voting system firms Smartmatic and Dominion Systems had manipulated the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, Fox News and Newsmax ran segments that debunked their own coverage.
Media legal scholars say that move highlights the promise and the limits of the current guardrails against spreading false information. The trigger was the threat of a defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic.
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Left
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