Fox board members subpoenaed in Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit over 2020 election lies | CNN Business

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Four Fox Corporation board members have been subpoenaed in voting technology company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its airing of 2020 election lies, alleging executives at the right-wing cable channel’s parent company knew it was spreading false claims.

In a court filing Monday, Smartmatic subpoenaed the four board members — Anne Dias, Charles Carey, Roland Hernandez, Jacques Nasser — over Fox News’s repeated airing of bogus conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

“Accountability and responsibility do not stop with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch,” Smartmatic

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