Smartmatic wants more than Dominion's $787 million payout, plus a retraction from Fox for its 2020 election lies, lawyer says | CNN Business

A top lawyer for Smartmatic, the voting technology company whose defamation lawsuit against Fox News is still pending, said Thursday that he won’t accept any settlement smaller than the $787 million Fox agreed to pay Dominion, and that his client needs a “full retraction” from the right-wing network disavowing the lies it spread about the 2020 presidential election. “They need to get an apology.

“The scope of the damage done to Smartmatic is a global scale, because we operate globally… $787 million is a good start. But it’s not the right finishing point.” He blasted Fox for perpetrating the myth that Smartmatic “somehow masterminded an ability to rig a national election when we were only in one county” in 2020 — Los Angeles County — adding, that level of “recklessness is something you don’t normally see.

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Fox Has Settled One Voting Machine Company’s Defamation Case. Another Looms.Legal experts say Fox’s settlement with Dominion Voting Systems gives Smartmatic leverage for its own case against the conservative media empire Currently Fox is winning It’s amazing to me how warren and klobuchar both called out dominion and yet their heardongs magically have been forgotten. A whole hbo documentary pre 2020 on it and poof…. Why? Legal experts, lol
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