Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage

Maddy Lauria

August 18, 2025 / 7:37 am

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle one of the last outstanding defamation lawsuits against a news organization for airing false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems – the same voting-technology company that had received a $787 million settlement from Fox News over its election coverage – brought the lawsuit against Newsmax. A trial was scheduled to begin in October.

In the lawsuit filed in the months after the 2020 election, Dominion accused the cable news network of featuring former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and supporter Mike Lindell of My Pillow , who helped spread false conspiracy theories about

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