Spyke
midwest.social

It would be a shame if a whole lot of behind the scenes dirt got exposed. A real shame.

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I don't think "the right wing news market" counts as a legal grouping but whatever, kill each other please

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lemmy.world

I’m amazed Newsmax has any money left for lawsuits after they lost to Dominion Voting Systems.

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They slunk away with paying a fraction of what they would have lost under serious, competent leadership. As it was, Dominion was lucky to get paid before trump SuperPardoned them or whatthefuckever insanity he’d barf up.

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ChicoSuavereply
lemmy.world

Seems the big payout was Fox News paying $750 million to settle. Dominion and SmartMatic sued Newsmax for a combined $107 million. Shortly after settling Newsmax went IPO and recouped all that money (and then some).

They are in a better position than Fox and are drawing more and more viewers since Trump took office. I think Trump even said he watches more Newsmax than Fox at one point but that could be a hallucination.

Newsmax seems to think it can fight Fox and win. Let's see how this plays out.

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Ahhh. I didn’t realize they raised cash through an IPO. That explains it.

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lemmy.world

The second worst propaganda outlet in the US suing the worst propaganda outlet in the US because they have a monopoly on propaganda, was not on my 2025 bingo card, but I'll take it.

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Azalreply
pawb.social

Fuck it, the right wingers don't believe in rules, why should we?

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lemmy.myserv.one

A short, costly, and devastating litigation generally means one side won desively. The matter was dismissed without going anywhere.

I want motions being filed every step,a long discovery, pointless court appearance, and more. I want these fuckers to spend money and time in litigation where no one really won due the amount resources spent. I want the only people making any money is the lawyers. I want expensive lawyers who charge ridicolous sums for their services. I want Johnny Depp and Amber Heard level of aminosity.

I want them to drag Robert Murdoch's undead corpse onto the stand. I want them go into the depths of hell to get Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy to give a deposition.

I want this to be humilating and very public. This a major issue in the right wing propaganda machine.

During all this, I want to sit and eat a bag of buttery popcorn. That is what a long, messy, costly litigation means.

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I want it to drag on long enough that it splits the far right into two factions and they start reporting things to slander the "other side"

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It’s like demon babies eating each other inside the stomach of the leopard before they get digested

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These infighting between conservatives always seem like a diversion tactics to me.

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I was arguing with my mom a few weeks ago because she was spouting racist anti-immigrant bullshit randomly, and I told her to stop watching Fox News.

She said, "I don't watch Fox News anymore. They're propaganda. I switched to NewsMax."

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I honestly hope they destroy and bankrupt each other. We literally can't mention politics anymore or else it will turn into a shouting match, because she is so brainwashed and propaganda-addled and gets angry when I literally back myself up with evidence that I show her right then. We even had to come up with a safe word if we get close so we don't start yelling.

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Newsmax sues Fox News, saying it illegally controls right-wing TV market : NPR | Spyke