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• Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News Corporation for defamation after the network’s personalities claimed that the company’s voting machines had corrupted the final tallies in the 2020 election.
• The filing suggests that FNC personalities didn’t believe what they were telling their viewers, and made those groundless accusations because they worried their viewers were abandoning them to go to channels that told them what they wanted to hear: that Trump had won the election.
• FNC went to “war footing” to “protect the brand” when one of its reporters accurately fact-checked a Trump tweet, and the filing claims that not a single witness from FNC testified they believed any of the allegations they were making about Dominion.
• The report of the special purpose grand jury investigating possible criminal interference in the 2020 election in Georgia was released today, and it found “by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election.”
• A bipartisan group of 28 former officials who were part of the Church Committee wrote an open letter to Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) today, reminding him that while the chair of the committee had been a Democrat, its work had been carefully bipartisan, and it protected ongoing intelligence and law enforcement operations.
• They warned Jordan that if he wanted to claim the mantle of that committee, he would need to move forward with the “same spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship.”

Published February 17, 2023
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