Fox News runs fact check in response to defamation charges by voting software firm


Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, left, listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for President Donald Trump, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Former N.Y. Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for President Trump, during a Nov. 19 news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
In an unusual move, Fox News is airing a segment to counter previous remarks made by its conservative hosts and pro-Trump guests that voting software firm Smartmatic was involved in election fraud.

The taped segment where a voting technology expert shoots down the many claims the conservative-leaning cable news channel presented about the London-based Smartmatic first aired Friday on Fox Business Network's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and will be repeated on Jeanine Pirro's show "Justice with Judge Jeanine" on Saturday night and Maria Bartiromo's program "Sunday Morning Futures."

The three-minute interview with Eddie Perez, a nonpartisan expert from the Palo Alto-based Open Source Election Technology Institute, is an apparent response to a Dec. 10 letter from attorneys for Smartmatic. The letter accused Fox News of airing numerous false and defamatory statements about the company in numerous segments on President Trump's baseless claims that widespread voter fraud and tampering with voting machines are what led to his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.

Smartmatic said in the letter that Fox News has aided "a concerted disinformation campaign" presenting unsupported claims that the company conspired to change the results of the vote to benefit Biden. While Fox News journalists have repeatedly reported there is no evidence to back Trump's claims, its pro-Trump commentators — some of whom confer with the president off-camera — have continued to give it some credence.
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