In the days and weeks after the 2020 US elections, former president Donald Trump and many of his allies accused Dominion of perpetrating election fraud. The company then filed a slew of defamation lawsuits against public figures and news networks, accusing them of spreading a false narrative
UPDATE, 12:39 PM ET: The judge presiding over Dominion's defamation case against Fox pushed back on the network's attorneys for their argument that Rupert Murdoch would be unable to testify live in the upcoming trial.
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A $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems over the network's coverage of the 2020 presidential election is an assault on the First Amendment, attorneys for the cable news giant argued in a counterclaim unsealed Thursday.