News anchors work at Newsmax's booth during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The network has settled with voting-tech company Smartmatic, which accused it of defamation following the 2020 presidential election.
“Lying to the American people has consequences,” the company’s statement said. “Smartmatic will not stop until the perpetrators are held accountable.”The case is just one in a flurry of lawsuits surrounding false claims about fraud in the 2020 election. In 2023, on the eve of opening arguments,The size of Fox's record settlement spoke to the gravity of the recurring false claims by the network about Dominion. The presiding judge, Eric M.
The network’s guests and hosts embraced allegations that Smartmatic software flipped votes during the election that year.." Powell was sanctioned by a federal judge in 2021 and subsequently pleaded guilty to election interference in Georgia in 2023.that no evidence linked Dominion or Smartmatic to the manipulation of votes and disavowed other related conspiracy theories. The next year, itIn legal filings, Newsmax denied that it engaged in any defamatory action toward Smartmatic.