A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election lies on Fox News, dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Smartmatic, the voting ...

A New York state appeals court ruled on Thursday that Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX) (NASDAQ:FOXA), parent of Fox News Network, must face a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic—a UK based voting machinery company.

The complaint, which arose out of Fox News’s promotion of vote-rigging conspiracy theories after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, is on track to proceed to trial.

In 2023, Fox settled a similar lawsuit filed by another election systems company, Dominion Voting Systems, for $787.5 million. Before the settlement, Fox had sought to exclude Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at a trial, but the Delaware judge rejected that request.

A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic ... dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Smartmatic, the voting technology company ...

As part of its lawsuit, Smartmatic alleged that Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son ... in the first amended complaint relating to Fox Corporation directing the other defendants to undertake ...

dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Washington (CNN) — A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit ...

Rupert Murdoch attempts to the US Open tennis mens final in New York on September 10, 2017. A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation ...

Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr has reversed his predecessor Jessica Rosenworcel’s last-minute decision to dismiss three complaints against local CBS, ABC and NBC stations.

The Duke of Sussex (or Montecito, these days) achieved the impossible: He got the British tabloids to apologize.

The conservative media mogul’s British newspapers division, known as News Group Newspapers (NGN), offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life,

The foundation created by Bill Gates – the philanthropist committed to fighting the world’s greatest inequities, or conspirator-in-chief of the global elite, depending on your world-view – is donating $700,000 to the Independent Media Group to be spent on journalism in “under-reported” parts of the world.