Fox News on Friday ran a segment clarifying a number of claims about election software firm Smartmatic, after the company threatened to sue the network over what it said was the publication of "False and defamatory statements."
Smartmatic last week threatened litigation against Fox, Newsmax, and OANN, announcing that Smartmatic had sent a number of retraction demand letters which "Identify dozens of factually inaccurate statements made by each of the organizations as part of a 'disinformation campaign' to injure Smartmatic and discredit the 2020 U.S. election."
The letter sent to Fox News Channel included a list of allegedly false and defamatory claims about Smartmatic aired on the network's programs.
These included claims that Smartmatic has a corporate relationship with Dominion Voting Systems, that Smartmatic "Has a corrupt relationship with the Venezuelan government, including Hugo Chávez," that Smartmatic election products "Were designed and used to fix elections," including the 2020 general election in the United States, and that Smartmatic's technology and software has numerous security weaknesses.
He also said Smartmatic has denied having any relationship with Dominion Voting Systems, another company that makes election equipment and software, adding that Smartmatic software was used in just one county in the United States in the November election.
Smartmatic separately sent a retraction demand letter to attorney Sidney Powell, alleging she "engaged in a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic" and "appeared on numerous news networks, including but not limited to, Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax, and told millions of viewers that Smartmatic was created under the direction of Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U. S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes.
Over the years, Smartmatic has drawn controversy for its management practices, with The New York Times in 2006 saying that "the role of the young Venezuelan engineers who founded Smartmatic has become less visible" and that its organization is "an elaborate web of offshore companies and foreign trusts.
Monday, December 21, 2020
Fox Airs Segment Debunking Election Fraud Claims Against Smartmatic After Threat of Legal Action
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