NEWSMAX will pay $ 67 million to Dominion voting systems to settle a lawsuit for the network for the presidential elections for the year 2020. In this image from April 3, 2025, CEO of Newsmax Chris Rudi and former New York City mayor Rodi Juliani joins others at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Newsmax will pay $ 67 million to settle one of the last distinguished defamation claims against a news organization to broadcast false claims that the 2020 elections were forged.
Dominional voting systems based in Denver-the same technology voting company that received a 787 million dollars settlement From Fox News about its electoral coverage – filed the lawsuit against newsmax. The trial was scheduled to start in October.
In the lawsuit, raised in the months after the 2020 elections, Dominion accused the cable news network of publishing false claims that the company’s vote technology was manipulated to help Joe Biden to overcome Donald Trump. Like other right -wing news networks, newsmax appeared on Trump’s allies who promoted these conspiracies, including Former Trump campaign lawyer Sydney Powell and supporter Mike Lindel from my pillow.
NewsMax announced the settlement in Presenting August 15 With the US Securities and Stock Exchange Committee. According to the document, the network paid $ 27 million in the settlement that day; The rest will be paid by January 2027.
numerous Court rulings and investigations By election officials, they did not find any widespread fraud in the elections in 2020; Even though, these allegations that were exposed were still present It was repeated by factions of Trump supporters in 2024. Dominion said that the elections have caused widespread damage, including death threats and missing revenues.
“We are pleased to develop this,” said Dominion spokesman said on Monday morning.
In mid -April, Judge Eric M. Davis, who headed the Dominional case against Fox News, that all the case The data broadcast on newsmax was also wrong. Its ruling means that if the case goes to the trial, the jury will not only have to determine whether Newsmax acted with “real malice”, whether Dominins should receive damage, and how much money you should get.
In a statement, newsmax He did not recognize any violations. She confirmed that her election coverage for 2020 was “fair, balanced and that takes place within the professional standards of the press.”
“Newsmax believed it is very important for the American people to hear the two electoral conflicts that originated in 2020,” said newsmax that it is very important for the American people to hear the two electoral conflicts that originated in 2020, “
But the company also accused Davis of ruling in ways “preferred to the plaintiffs and limited ability over the newsmax over the defense of itself.” It claims that the actions of the court, in this case and against Fox, “represent a direct attack on freedom of expression and free press.”
NewsMax last year I settled in the case of defamation It was presented by the other voting systems company, Smartmatic USA, in the wake of the 2020 elections. The information provided to the US Securities and Stock Exchange Committee showed that newsmax is to pay SmartMatic The second half of that amount is 40 million dollars By the end of June 2025.
SmartMatic is still following a $ 2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News in the New York State Court. Which – which The case, if he goes to trial, can be heard by a jury in 2026.
Dominion and some of its employees File a case on Powell separately And others, including former lawyer Trump and New York mayor Rudi Juliani.