Fox News this weekend is airing a stunning point-by-point fact check to claims made on programs hosted by the network’s most pro-Trump voices after voting technology company Smartmatic send a 20-page legal letter demanding “a full and complete retraction of all false and defamatory statements and reports.”
The segment, which features an interview with Palo Open Source Election Technology Institute voting technology expert Eddie Perez, aired on Lou Dobb’s Friday show and Jeanine Pirro’s Saturday show. Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo will also show the segment.
In its Dec. 10 letter to Fox News Media, Smartmatic charged the company and its hosts with waging “a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic. Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by [the late Venezuelan President] 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.” The company also demanded the company “match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications.” Continue reading.