Years after the 2020 election and in the wake of a landmark $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems

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Years after the 2020 election and in the wake of a landmark $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News is continuing to fight back against a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit brought by voting machine company Smartmatic.
Fox wrote a clear message in a new court filing on Wednesday: "Smartmatic is not Dominion."

"Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic was mired in a decade of business failure due to inadequate technology, missing certifications, and involvement in multiple highly controversial elections," the filing states. "Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic was founded by Venezuelans and was embroiled in claims of fraud in Venezuelan and Filipino elections well before any controversy arose over the 2020 Presidential Election."

The filing from attorneys representing Fox Corp, Fox News, and some talent on Wednesday came in support of the motion for summary judgment, in which their attorneys urged the court that Smartmatic's suit is nothing more than a "meritless cash grab" from what they say is "failing company."

In its 12-page filing, Fox laid out a litany of what it said were Smartmatic's "ongoing reputational problems" in an effort to give credit to some of the claims made on its air about the company in the wake of the 2020 election. They say that "none of it was defamatory."

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