OAN Defamed the Dominion with Mike Lindell Voter Fraud Video: Lawsuit

• Dominion sued One America News, claiming he defamed the company by showing the Mike Lindell videos.
• The CEO of MyPillow has made four “documentary films” that claim to show the 2020 election results rigged by Dominion.
• While OAN put a warning on one of the videos, Dominion says it doesn’t make sense.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $ 1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against One America News, a right-wing media organization that pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election on Tuesday.

The lawsuit targets in particular the CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, whose “docu-films” supposed to prove the electoral fraud were diffused on the platforms of OAN.

“Mike Lindell used at least 30 hours of OAN airtime to broadcast lies about Dominion through his” documentaries “Absolute Proof, Scientific Truth, Absolute Interference and Absolute 9-0,” the lawsuit says. “OAN knowingly broadcast lies about Dominion to a worldwide audience by inviting Lindell to the air, where he knew he would repeat those lies.”

Dominion had previously sued Lindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, in February. Lindell falsely claimed that Dominion, together with a host of obscure international hackers, rigged his electoral machines against Trump in favor of current President Joe Biden.

The pillow mogul has continued to push his conspiracy theories, claiming recently that Trump would be “reinstated” as president in August and, this week alone, hosting a “cyber-symposium” on the elections.

Dominion said in Tuesday’s lawsuit that OAN also ignored the warnings and “knowingly lied to its audience” by showing the Lindell videos.

“OAN was fully aware that Lindell’s ‘docu-film’ was full of lies and recklessly ignored the truth about the 2020 election, but was cheating viewers nonetheless,” the lawsuit reads. “Why? At least in part to please Lindell, who was (and remains) one of OAN’s biggest advertisers. And that also helped OAN to win President Trump’s favor.”

OAN issued warning suggesting he knew Lindell’s claims were false

The media organization first released Lindell’s three-hour video “Absolute Proof” in February.

He slapped a warning on the video saying that Lindell was “solely responsible” for the content, and that its content “is presented as opinions only at this time and is not intended to be viewed or interpreted by the viewer as fact. established “.

Dominion said in its lawsuit that the disclaimer was inconsistent and totally insufficient, and that it was a functional extension of the network’s earlier “report”. The lawsuit includes numerous screenshots of OAN social media posts promoting the video as showing evidence of electoral fraud.

The warning was “nothing more than a ploy – a hollow attempt to try to avoid responsibility for what it knew to be a movie about the same bogus and completely unfounded allegations that OAN itself had created , approved and propagated for almost four months, ”says the lawsuit.

Dominion attorneys also said the warning amounted to proof that OAN “knew or recklessly ignored” the truth – a legal threshold for defamation suits.

The network aired “Absolute Proof” 13 times in four days, the lawsuit notes.

After “Absolute Proof” Lindell made more videos pushing false conspiracy theories about Dominion’s role in the election. OAN aired “Scientific Truth” and “Absolute Interference” in April. He also aired “Absolutely 9-0” – which purported to show how the Supreme Court would overturn the 2020 election results – in June.

OAN did not include a disclaimer when airing any of these sequels, according to the lawsuit.

Lindell maintained his false claims and asked the judge to dismiss Dominion’s February lawsuit against him. He also filed a counter-suit against Dominion.

OAN lawyers did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.