NewsMax has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million to settle the defamation lawsuit brought against them because they continually lied about the 2020 election being stolen
NewsMax joins Fox News on the list of lying liars who spread Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
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— Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Earlier this year a Delaware judge ruled that Newsmax did air defamatory statements about Dominion by falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 election.
The judge said it would be up to a jury to decide if the smears were intentional, and if so, how much Dominion deserved in damages. But the expected April trial was postponed by the judge, citing a professional matter unrelated to the case.
Then money talked, just as it did when Fox News settled with Dominion on the verge of a similar trial in 2023. Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million, a gobsmacking sum that weighed on Fox Corp’s quarterly earnings at the time.
NewsMax has complained that the judge limited the news outlet’s ability to defend itself after ruling it was fraudulent for anyone on Newsmax to state the 2020 election was rigged without any evidence to prove such claims.
It’s worth noting that there’s no indication thus far that NewsMax will publicly acknowledge its false claims about Dominion, or offer on-air apology.
It was revealed in March this year that NewsMax paid $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 U.S. election.
Breaking News: The right-wing cable channel Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to settle accusations that it aired false claims about the voting machine company Dominion Voting System rigging votes in the 2020 election.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) August 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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