‘Fact-Check This Crap’: The 5 Juiciest Fox News Revelations in Smartmatic’s Newly-Unredacted Court Filing

Michael Luciano Aug 19th, 2025, 10:59 pm

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A slew of private text messages from current and former Fox News hosts were made public on Tuesday night after a judicial hearing officer unredacted parts of a motion filed by Smartmatic.

Smartmatic, which provided election technology to Los Angeles County for the 2020 election, is suing Fox for $2.7 billion for defamation. After the 2020 election, President Donald Trump falsely alleged the contest had been rigged against him. In the ensuing weeks, some Fox News hosts and guests echoed those claims and singled out Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems for having played a role in getting Joe Biden elected.

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