As Dominion Lawsuit Goes to Trial, Misinformation About Voting Machines Persists

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jury selection begins on Thursday in Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News, more than two years after Dominion filed its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit arguing that Fox knowingly broadcast false information about its voting machines and software. In a pretrial ruling, the Delaware Superior Court judge overseeing the case determined that it was “crystal clear” that Fox’s statements about Dominion were false. Nevertheless, misinformation about the voting machines has already taken hold in California: Shasta County has canceled its contract with Dominion and plans to hand-count future elections. We look at the law and politics of the Dominion case and its impact in the state. Guests: Jeremy W. Peters, reporter covering the media and its intersection with politics, culture and law, The New York Times; author, "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted" Roman Battaglia, reporter, Jefferson Public Radio Jessica Levinson, professor of law, Loyola Law School; host, the podcast “Passing Judgment” Tommy Gong, deputy county clerk-recorder, Contra Costa County Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	Coming up on forum, Dominion Voting Systems versus Fox News Network.
1:10.1	Jury selection starts today in the landmark trial where the right-wing media giant
1:14.6	faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
1:18.6	Dominion argues Fox News knowingly aired false information about its voting machines in the aftermath
1:24.6	of the 2020 election.
1:25.6	And those same conspiracy theories are taking hold in California.
1:29.8	In Shasta County, supervisors canceled a contract with Dominion
1:33.1	and planned to hand count votes in future elections.
1:36.1	We look at the law and politics of the Dominion case and its impact in the state.
1:41.1	That's next after this news.
1:54.0	This is Forum. I'm Guy Marzarotti in for Mina Kim. jury selection begins today in a Delaware courtroom where Fox News is facing a $1.6 billion defamation suit. The plaintiff is Dominion voting systems, which is accusing
2:03.2	Fox News of broadcasting conspiracies that the voting machines were part of a plot to steal
2:08.9	the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. This hour will unpack the landmark case
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