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A Delaware judge said that a jury will have to decide whether Newsmax engaged in actual malice against Smartmatic as the conservative news outlet amplified claims made by allies of Donald Trump that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 presidential election.

The ruling from Judge Eric M. Davis is just the latest in a series of lawsuits filed by Smartmatic and another election systems company, Dominion Voting Systems, over claims made by Newsmax, One America News Network and Fox News guests and personalities in the aftermath of the election.

Smartmatic sued Newsmax in November, 2021, claiming that as the network sought a larger audience, it published dozens of reports indicating that Smartmatic was in a “criminal conspiracy” to rig the results of the election, “and that its technology and software were used to switch votes from former President Trump to now President Biden.”

In his ruling, Davis wrote that “there...

DirecTV has restored Newsmax to the platform's cable, satellite and streaming service, as of March 23, 2023, following parent company AT&T stock falling by almost 7%, wiping nearly $10 billion from its market value, as millions of protesting US subscribers canceled their DirecTV services:

Newsmax is the home of Emmy nominated broadcaster Bianca de la Garza, Emmy award winner Wendy Bell…

…Emmy award winners Bob Sellers....

...Shaun Kraisman…

...and anchor/contributors John Bachman ...

…Rob Finnerty...

... Chris Salcedo, Emma Rechenberg,...

...Sean Spicer, Greta Van Susteren, Rita Cosby, Sarah Williamson...

...Christina Thompson...

...Rob Schmitt...

...Jenn Pellegrino, Lyndsay Keith...

....Michael Savage, Eric Bolling, Carl Higbie...

... Tom Basile, Jane King, Rob Carson, Sebastian Gorka, Alex Kraemer...

...Alison Maloni...

Mike Huckabee, Katrina Szish, Michael Reagan, Greg Kelly and a whole lot more...

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Since DirecTV dropped Newsmax on Jan. 24, AT&T's stock has fallen by almost 7, wiping nearly 10 billion from its market value, as millions of US subscribers cancel their cable/phone services with DirecTV, majority-owned by AT&T and minority-owned, managed by Tpg Capital, as DirecTV continues to ‘deplatform’ conservative news network Newsmax “…while denying it cable fees on a fair and equitable basis…”:

But according to DirectTV:

"The same programming offered by Newsmax today is already available at no charge to 100 of U.S. households including our customers via NewsmaxTV.com, YouTube.com and on multiple streaming platforms like Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Google Play..."

Newsmax is the home of Emmy winning/nominated broadcasters Bianca de la Garza, Wendy Bell, Bob Sellers, Shaun Kraisman…

...and anchor/contributors John Bachman ...

…Rob Finnerty...

... Alison Maloni, Chris Salcedo, Emma Rechenberg,...

...Sean Spicer, Greta Van Susteren, Rita Cosby, Sarah Williamson...

...Christina Thompson...

...Rob Schmitt.

Millions of "DirecTV" subscribers are canceling services, as AT&T and Warner Bros Discovery, also owners of low-rated news outlet CNN, concerned about competitive viewership at Newsmax, home of Emmy winning/nominated broadcasters Wendy Bell, Bob Sellers, Bianca de la Garza and Shaun Kraisman, ''de-platformed' Newsmax from the DirecTV lineup:

According to DirectTV:

"The same programming offered by Newsmax today is already available at no charge to 100 of U.S. households including our customers via NewsmaxTV.com, YouTube.com and on multiple streaming platforms like Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Google Play..."

Along with de la Garza...

...and Kraisman are Newsmax anchors/contributors John Bachman ...

…Rob Finnerty...

... Alison Maloni, Chris Salcedo, Emma Rechenberg,...

...Sean Spicer, Greta Van Susteren, Sarah Williamson...

...Christina Thompson...

Rob Schmitt...

...Jenn Pellegrino, Lyndsay Keith...

....Michael Savage, Eric Bolling, Carl Higbie...

... Tom Basile, Jane King, Wendy Bell, Sebastian Gorka, Alex Kraemer...

...Mike Huckabee, Michael Reagan, Greg Kelly and a whole lot more.

Conservative network Newsmax has been dropped from DirecTV as of 11:50 p.m. Et on Tuesday.

DirecTV confirmed the decision, saying the network is no longer broadcast on DirecTV, DirecTV Stream or U-Verse, with the decision made due to Newsmax’s “demands for rate increases.”

“On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately Newsmax’s demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs that we would have to pass on to our broad customer base. Anyone, including our customers, can watch the network for free via NewsmaxTV.com, YouTube.com and on multiple streaming platforms like Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Google Play. We continually evaluate the most relevant programming to provide our customers and expect to fill this available channel with new content,” a DirecTV spokesperson said in a statement.

The satellite TV company...

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Monday, claiming that he defamed the company with his repeated allegations that it rigged the election against Donald Trump.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, also accuses media outlets including Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network of giving Lindell a platform to spread “the Big Lie” because they wanted to stay in the good graces of a major sponsor. None of the media entities are named as defendants in the lawsuit, but Dominion has previously said that it had not ruled out legal action against those who had “recklessly provided a platform for these discredited allegations.”

“After the Big Lie had been repeatedly disproven by hand recounts of paper ballots and after some of Lindell’s allies—like Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani—had been deplatformed by Fox News for peddling the lie,...

Smartmatic, a maker of voting technology whose name has been the subject of disparaging commentary from a handful of conservative-news outlets, on Thursday said it had sued Fox News and three of its popular on-air personalities — Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro — for more than $2.7 billion, citing efforts made on Fox News programs to disparage the company’s business.

Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two attorneys who had been working for President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election that resulted in victory for President Joe Biden, are also named in the suit.

“One of the biggest challenges in the Information Age is disinformation,” said Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic, in a statement. “Fox is responsible for this disinformation campaign, which has damaged democracy worldwide and irreparably harmed Smartmatic and other stakeholders who contribute to modern elections.” The complaint was filed in New York State Court in Manhattan.

MyPillow boss Mike Lindell is one of former President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters, and this week he went on the right-wing news network Newsmax to try to push the baseless conspiracy theory that voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems rigged the election in President Joe Biden’s favor. The thing is, Dominion has threatened Newsmax (and Lindell) with a defamation lawsuit that’s serious enough to make Newsmax acknowledge reality. When Lindell kept talking about Dominion after being warned not to because Newsmax was “unable to verify” his claims (that’s the excuse they gave without mentioning the legal threats), anchor Bob Sellers walked out of the interview. It was pretty incredible TV, and Trevor Noah thought it was great.

“Damn, that defamation lawsuit has Newsmax shook,” the “Daily Show” host said Wednesday night. “See that dude? He peaced out of there like the Chipotle just hit.”

Noah...

On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t stop laughing over a clip of Newsmax co-anchor Bob Sellers walking out of an interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

The pillow entrepreneur was banned from Twitter in late January for spreading election fraud conspiracy theories, and he doubled down on those outlandish claims during his Newsmax appearance on Tuesday. It got to the point where Sellers couldn’t take it anymore, so he abandoned his post and walked off in the middle of the interview.

“The subject of election fraud did not go over well when you-know-who loyalist, the MyPillow fellow, was on Newsmax yesterday,” Goldberg said on “The View,” laughing so hard over the clip that she could barely hold it together while asking for co-host Meghan McCain’s opinion.

In a rare turn of events, McCain actually found herself agreeing with Goldberg.

“I know, Whoopi, it’s so good,...

On Tuesday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell made an appearance on Newsmax’s “American Agenda” to help the network advance disingenuous claims of “cancel culture” inspired by the recent suspension of his Twitter account.

But unfortunately Lindell — a conspiracy theorist who supported the violent insurrection incited by Donald Trump — was unable to refrain from shouting the kinds of lies that got him kicked off the social media site in the first place. And it got to the point that one of the show’s co-hosts just walked off in the middle of the interview after several unsuccessful attempts to save Lindell — and Newsmax — from himself.

Now, Lindell was banned from Twitter in late January for continuing to spread conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, and when he subsequently tried to use the MyPillow account to accuse Twitter of being actively involved in that nonexistent fraud, Twitter suspended that as well.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was a guest on Newsmax Tuesday afternoon, ostensibly to talk about “cancel culture” after being banned from Twitter.

But Lindell wanted to talk about election conspiracies, including those about Dominion and Smartmatic, the election systems companies that threatened legal action or filed lawsuits against those claiming that they rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden.

As anchor Heather Childers asked about Twitter, Lindell immediately went into “election fraud with these Dominion machines,” but then anchor Bob Sellers interrupted him.

“Mike, you are talking about machines that we at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds allegations. We just want to let people know that there is nothing substantive that we have seen,” Sellers said.

As Lindell continued to talk, Sellers went on over him, “While there were some clear evidence of some cases of vote fraud and election irregularities, the election...

It’s official: MyPillow CEO/conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is too out there even for Newsmax.

Lindell appeared on the conservative news channel Tuesday, ostensibly to discuss cancel culture in the wake of his being permanently removed from Twitter for repeated violations of its Civic Integrity policy. But when Lindell kicked off the segment by ranting about election fraud, anchor Bob Sellers quickly began speaking over him.

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