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After suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, Dominion says it could file lawsuits against other media outlets and even Trump

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EditionAUSMar 30, 2021, 9:36 AM, including one against Fox News, over baseless claims that its machines helped rig the 2020 US election, and one of the company’s attorneys says other media outlets could be next.It could also sue individual Fox News employees, and the company hasn’t ruled out suing former President Donald Trump, the attorney, Tom Clare, told on Monday.As Trump contested his loss in November’s election, a conspiracy theory emerged that Dominion voting machines “flipped” votes from Trump to Joe Biden through a method developed with the regime of the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez. The theory has been thoroughly debunked.On Friday, , claiming the network gave prominence to the election-fraud claims as a tactic to revive its ratings. Fox News told Insider that it was “proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”Clare told Axios that other outlets “played a similar role to Fox in spreading these lies” and that it was “a fair assumption” that Dominion would sue other media outlets. He didn’t name any of them.“We’re trying to get to the media outlets that really gave this a much bigger platform,” he said. “I expect that we’re going to be holding them accountable as well.”He said Dominion’s lawyers were still looking into the evidence. “This is not one of those cases where we’re going to fire first and aim later,” he said.Since January, , accusing them of helping spread the conspiracy theory. It is seeking $US1.3 ($2) billion damages in each suit.Dominion is seeking $US1.6 ($2) billion in its Fox News suit.Dominion’s lawsuit was just against Fox News. Its fellow voting-technology company , which has also been baselessly accused of “flipping” votes, named as defendants in its lawsuit against the network.Fox News Media, Bartiromo, Pirro, and Dobbs all filed separate motions to dismiss the lawsuit, said.Clare said Dominion hadn’t ruled out suing individual Fox News personalities and could join these cases to the larger Fox News one or file separate cases.He added, however, that he considered Fox News to be “the entity with the megaphone.”Read&nbsp;more:&nbsp;Several of Fox News’ shows reported that there was no evidence of Dominion’s systems changing votes. But Fox News, in particular its opinion hosts, “questioned the results of the election or pushed conspiracy theories about it at least 774 times” in the two weeks after the network called the race, according to . Insider has asked Fox News for comment on the Media Matters report.When asked whether Dominion would file a suit against Trump, Clare said: “We haven’t ruled anyone out.”He said that Dominion’s lawyers would look into the role that the president and the White House played in spreading the conspiracy theory. “If the evidence leads us to believe that we’ve got strong claims,” he said, “that’s something we’re going to look at.”Site highlights each day to your inbox.Follow Business Insider Australia on , , , and .Site highlights each day to your inbox.

EditionAUSMar 30, 2021, 9:36 AM, including one against Fox News, over baseless claims that its machines helped rig the 2020 US election, and one of the company’s attorneys says other media outlets could be next.It could also sue individual Fox News employees, and the company hasn’t ruled out suing former President Donald Trump, the attorney, Tom Clare, told on Monday.As Trump contested his loss in November’s election, a conspiracy theory emerged that Dominion voting machines “flipped” votes from Trump to Joe Biden through a method developed with the regime of the late Venezuelan dictator...

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After suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, Dominion says it could file lawsuits against other media outlets and even Trump

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