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Smartmatic sues OANN, Newsmax over claims it rigged voting machines for Biden
- cf100clunk 5y agoThey've already sued Fox News for $2.7bn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26030150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26030150
- jfengel 5y agoI wish them luck. Defamation has a really high bar in the US, so much so that even the most obvious cases go unchallenged. I believe it's become much worse over the last couple of decades, with little pushback because it's so difficult to prove. I know that there's a strong contingent on HN who prefer free speech at all costs, putting the burden on the hearer to separate truth from falsehood, and treating damage as irrelevant. Smartmatic is putting a dollar figure on the damage, and if they can cross that very high bar, I hope they can get it.