Post by b***@panix.com| Smartmatic may have an even stronger claim than Dominion
| did.
|
| Fox Corp, the parent of Fox News Network, failed to
| convince a New York state appeals court to dismiss a
| defamation claim in electronic voting systems company
| Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit over the network's 2020
| post-election coverage.
|
| A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan
| ruled on Thursday that Smartmatic sufficiently alleged the
| Fox parent was directly liable for on-air statements
| suggesting Smartmatic helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential
| election to favor Democrat Joe Biden over Republican Donald
| Trump.
| ...
<https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-must-face-smartmatic-27-billion-defamation-lawsuit-ny-appeals-court-rules-2025-01-09/>
--bks
Ummm ... almost nobody watches FOX News anymore, just
like they don't watch ABC/CBS/NBC/etc. Nothing but
whatever-wing extremists and liars.
So, Smartmatic is likely to get a buck.95 for its
efforts.
And by what I've seen their boxes CAN be hacked.
Whether hacking many would be PRACTICAL in a
real-world situation is not clear.
LONG back I posted some very do-able specs for
an un-hackable e-vote machine ... starts with
NOT using boards from old Winders laptops,
then a deliberately-limited IN-ROM form-building
language. They'd have been fairly cheap too.
An old Raspberry Pi-2 with no wifi/BT would be
overkill for the need.
NOBODY has gone that way. Wonder why ?
Anyway, for TV news - NewsNation and BBC are the
only ones worth watching anymore. BBC is 'liberal'
but it's FOREIGN 'liberal' and not so closely aligned
with US 'liberals'. France24 is generally not so bad
either and IS broadcast some places in the USA.
Clue - if you want anything vaguely approaching
'objective' news about the USA - don't count on
USA news sources. Foreigners "don't quite GET it"
about Americans and thus tend to stick more to
Just The Facts.
PROPER "news" - whatever maybe ten US/foreign sources
AGREE on is probably The Truth. Everything else ....
insert suppository before attempting belief ......