Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems after the news organization claimed the 2020 election was rigged.
Dominion Voting Systems had previously settled a defamation suit against Fox News for $787 million prior to settling with Newsmax; both cases stemmed from coverage pertaining to the 2020 election, per NPR (National Public Radio):
In the lawsuit, filed in the months after the 2020 election, Dominion accused the cable news network of spreading false claims that the company’s voting technology had been manipulated to help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump. Like other right-wing news networks, Newsmax featured Trump allies who promoted these conspiracies, including former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and supporter Mike Lindell of MyPill