Six things we know about the Fox Dominion defamation trial

Who needs Succession when we have Dominion? A billion-dollar lawsuit involving a media tycoon, the 2020 presidential race and a potential Supreme Court showdown. But for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News this is no fictional drama. They are about to begin one of the most anticipated defamation trials in American history, over the claims that Fox broadcast about voting systems used in the 2020 presidential election. Dominion Voting Systems – whose equipment was used in 28 states during the election – is seeking damages of £1.3 billion in damages over the anti-Dominion conspiracy theories and demonstrably false claims made by Fox News on-air personalities during the weeks that followed the election. Below is a round-up of six things we know about the defamation trial thus far:

Dominion’s accusations against Fox

Dominion argues that it was defamed by Fox News when the network broadcast baseless claims that its machines ‘rigged’ the 2020 presidential election by flipping millions of Trump votes to Biden.