The $2.7 Billion Case Against Fox News

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

“The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for president and vice president of the United States.” So begins the 280-page complaint filed by Smartmatic, an election software company, against the Fox Corporation. Smartmatic accuses the network of doing irreparable damage to the company’s business by allowing election conspiracy theorists to use Fox News as a megaphone for misinformation. Today, we hear from Antonio Mugica, Smartmatic’s C.E.O., and the lawyer Erik Connelly about the $2.7 billion case.

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0:00.0	Do you have the filing in front of you?
0:02.7	Give me a second.
0:06.0	It's rather heavy.
0:07.0	So yes.
0:08.0	Yeah, how many pages is it?
0:09.0	It's 280 pages.
0:11.4	And would you mind just reading me at the beginning?
0:15.8	The Earth is Round 2 plus 2 equals 4.
0:19.8	Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the
0:25.0	United States.
0:26.6	The election was not stolen, rigged or fixed.
0:30.0	These are facts.
0:31.0	They are demonstrable and irrefutable.
0:34.9	Defendants have always known these facts.
0:37.1	They knew Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 US election.
0:41.4	They knew the election was not stolen.
0:43.7	They knew the election was not rigged or fixed.
0:46.8	They knew these truths just as they knew the Earth is Round and 2 plus 2 equals 4.
0:53.5	Just did that want Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to win the election?
0:57.0	They wanted President Donald Trump and Vice President Michael Pence to win re-election.
1:02.2	Defendants were disappointed.
1:04.4	Defendants decided to tell people that the election was stolen from President Trump and
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