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26 Mar, 7 tweets, 4 min read
💥Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Suit v. FOXNEWS, accused of pushing disinformation & lies for profit

"Fox took a small flame and turned it into a forest fire… sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes" cnn.com/2021/03/26/med…
“As the dominant media company among those viewers dissatisfied with the election results, Fox gave these fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved.”

Voting-Machine Company Dominion Sues Fox News Over Election Claims wsj.com/articles/votin…
When does Dominion sue Trump? He tweeted lies about its voting machines 34 times. The 1st: 186K retweets. Altogether ~1.4 MILLION RTs. Trump lies were integral to FoxNews lies, together creating a firehose of disinformation so toxic, radicalized terrorists attacked US Capitol.
Trump & Foxnews are intertwined in election lies. His first tweet lie about Dominion "switching votes" was followed by a tweet promoting Fox shows Hannity & Dobbs pushing the same lie on the same day => Coordinated conspiracy & disinformation campaign to defame, deceive & profit.
Dominion defamation suit says Fox orchestrated a disinformation campaign to broadcast lies of facially unreliable sources b/c the lies were good for business. Reaching OVER A BILLION people, Fox lies caused economic harm, undermined trust, threatened safety of employees+customers
Dominion signals it may add FoxNews personalities to $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox, including propagandists Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro.

Dobbs appears ~300 times in the 139-page court filing.
cnbc.com/2021/03/26/dom…
Dominion nails Foxnews' power to disseminate lies: "Fox gave [election] fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved… a global platform, an audience of hundreds of millions"

Ironically, malice may be easier to prove b/c of Fox's established news & legal depts.

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🚨Kremlin crackdown Saturday: Police in Moscow Raid Pro-Democracy Forum, arrest over 180 people from across #Russia, including elected officials, activists & journalists. Among them @vkaramurza, victim of 2 assassination attempts per @bellingcat voanews.com/europe/police-…
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UN Human Rights Experts Demand Immediate Release of #Navalny From Russian Penal Colony, Urge Global Probe of Poisoning
via ⁦@MoscowTimes⁩ themoscowtimes.com/2021/03/01/un-…
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“Critical” now b/c he’s in prison under #Russia’s control. Image
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I've heard a lot of gaslighting, but @RonJohnsonWI calling Trump supporters—coming from a Trump rally—"Jovial, friendly and earnest" takes the cake.
@RonJohnsonWI GOP Senators complicit in a TERRORIST attack on the US Capitol by PARAMILITARY EXTREMISTS to keep Trump in power are today whitewashing, gaslighting, deflecting their own complicity. They have no business overseeing any investigation into a deadly insurrection they helped incite.
@RonJohnsonWI I don't know if Ron Johnson is Russian asset, but he's surely Putin's favorite Senator. His history of advancing Russian disinformation & conspiracy theories is long. Seems noticeably worse after GOP Senators' 2018 July 4th trip to Russia, after which he urged lifting sanctions.
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Getting closer to Roger Stone. He was fundraising for security for Jan 5-6.
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Watkins' defense basically says she wasn't overthrowing the govt b/c Trump was POTUS & he ordered it. She thought she was doing her duty. But she was just one of Trump's "suckers & losers," manipulated by a conman to betray her country. She should be furious. He ruined her life.
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#Breaking 5 GOP Senators Vote to Call Witnesses. There will be witnesses at Trump's #ImpeachmentTrial.

First it was 4, then Lindsey Graham changed his vote.
Meanwhile, McConnell will acquit Trump w/ or w/o witnesses. He also says that Republicans can vote their conscience. Which just highlights how Banana Republican the GOP is. They have to be told to vote their conscience by their leader who has none. #ImpeachmentTrial
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