Despite now being nine months removed from the 2020 US presidential election, there is still plenty of online chatter about the event, and the results, particularly within the right win of the alternative media spectrum.
Concerns over a very specific aspect of the election have dominated coverage as of late: Dominion Voting Systems and the machines that they’ve provided to the electoral cause.
But, some of the things being tossed around are just not true, says Dominion, and they’re using the full weight of their legal team to drive the point home.
Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday filed defamation suits against One America News Network, Herring Networks’ Newsmax Media and the founder and former CEO of Overstock.com over claims by the defendants that the company rigged the 2020 U.S. election for President Joe Biden.
Also named in the complaint are OAN personalities Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb, and Herring Networks owners Robert Herring and Charles Herring.
OAN didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The language of the suit sounded similar to language used by Dominion in the past, in other defamation suits aimed at Trump confidantes.
“Newsmax and OAN both endorsed, repeated, broadcast, and amplified a series of verifiably false lies about Dominion to serve their own commercial purposes,” wrote Dominion lawyer Stephen Shackelford, a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP.
“Patrick Byrne is responsible for bankrolling and promoting a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion that reached millions of people worldwide. We are suing to set the record straight, to vindicate Dominion’s rights, to hold the defendants accountable, and to recover damages for the devastating economic harm done to Dominion’s business,” Shackelford added.
The earlier lawsuits filed by Dominion sought approximately the company’s entire net worth in damages.
