The network, in an attempt to boost its ratings, falsely claimed the company rigged the 2020 election.
The suit follows months of false claims by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans that President Joe Biden’s victory was “rigged,” many of which targeted Dominion. Trump supporters, many of whom believed Trump’s stolen election claims, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress met to certify Biden’s win, resulting in the death of a Capitol Police officer and four others.
Dominion claims in the lawsuit that Fox “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process.”
In a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Fox News said that it was “proud of its election coverage, which stands for the highest tradition of American journalism,” and added that it would “vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”
Despite the claims of fraud, numerous Republican officials in Trump’s administration and in battleground states across the country acknowledged that the election was free and fair. Former Attorney General Bill Barr conceded that there was no evidence of fraud despite Trump’s claims, and Chris Krebs, Trump’s top cybersecurity official, was fired by tweet after saying that the election was the most secure in history.
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