Dominion sues lawyer Sidney Powell for libel

Lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on November 19, 2020 at a press conference in Washington.

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Dominion is done playing.

On Friday, the Canadian company attacked former Donald Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, saying she had caused him "unprecedented harm" by relaying unfounded conspiracy theories about the election.

Powell, with whom the US president's campaign distanced itself in late November, publicly accused Dominion's voting machines of being at the heart of a vast international conspiracy aimed at losing Donald Trump in the November presidential election.

Dominion is seeking $ 1.4 billion in damages.

The Canadian company ensures in particular that many American states are considering renegotiating or canceling their contracts.

Fox News forced to self-fact-check

By the end of December, Dominion had already beefed up its game, threatening Fox News and Newsmax with legal action.

To escape it, the two channels had been forced to broadcast a fact-checking sequence stressing that they had "no evidence that Dominion had links with Hugo Chavez or the government of Venezuela [...] or with George Soros" and no evidence that votes were changed from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

Newsmax just aired this note to "clarify" its coverage of Smartmatic and Dominion.

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- John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) December 21, 2020

Most of these fantasies have their origin in the QAnon movement.

Friday, Twitter continued its cleanup: the network suspended many accounts linked to this conspiracy movement, including that of Donald Trump's former adviser Mike Flynn, as well as that of Sidney Powell.

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