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Smartmatic has documented historical business links to Venezuela: it was founded by Venezuelan engineers, ran Venezuela’s 2004 referendum system, and for a time owned U.S. vendor Sequoia, prompting a ...
Dominion Voting Systems is a North American company founded in Canada with headquarters in Toronto and Denver; multiple fact-checks and reporting state it has no ties to Venezuela and did not originat...
Claims that Smartmatic or Dominion were created by — or directed by — the Venezuelan government to alter U.S. election results rest on a mix of verifiable corporate history and disproven conspiracy cl...
Smartmatic was founded in the early 2000s by Venezuelan engineers Antonio (Antonia/Antonio variant appears in sources) Mugica and Roger Piñate and is reported to be majority‑owned by the founders’ fam...
Major media-watchers and academic studies identify Fox News as having a conservative or right-leaning editorial posture, with evidence that its programming and opinion shows have influenced voting and...
Newsmax is consistently rated by multiple media‑bias trackers as a right‑leaning outlet: Ad Fontes places Newsmax website in "Strong Right" with mixed reliability , AllSides rates its online content a...
Smartmatic is the dominant and best-documented supplier of electronic voting technology in Venezuela from the 2004 rollout through multiple national contests up to 2017, supplying touchscreen machines...
Fox News is not a formal or legal arm of the Republican Party; it is a privately owned cable news network that courts and attracts a heavily Republican audience and has demonstrable ties and influence...
U.S. courts overwhelmingly rejected the core 2020 presidential-election fraud claims brought by former President Trump, his campaign and allied groups, with judges dismissing or ruling against challen...
Between 2020 and 2025 Fox News faced multiple high‑profile defamation threats and lawsuits tied to its post‑2020 election coverage: Dominion Voting Systems sued in 2021 and that case was settled for a...
Smartmatic began as a Venezuela-rooted technology firm that built electronic voting systems and expanded into a global provider of election technology, running or supporting dozens of national and loc...
Smartmatic was founded in 2000 (or around 1999 in some accounts) by Venezuelan engineers Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate; Antonio Mugica is widely described as the company’s CEO a...
The most prominent allegations after the 2020 U.S. presidential election clustered into claims about , accusations that , and high‑profile allegations that ; courts, audits, and academic studies found...
Fox News paid $787.5 million to settle Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit in April 2023, averting a trial that would have revealed more internal documents . Separately, Smartmatic pursued a $2.7...
Documents and contemporary reporting show Smartmatic’s founders are Venezuelan nationals (Antonio Mugica, Roger Piñate, Alfredo Anzola) and the company won large Venezuelan contracts beginning in 2004...
Available reporting in the provided material does not describe any Fox News response to a Coco Gauff lawsuit; there is no direct coverage of Fox News replying to litigation by Gauff in these sources (...
Both Smartmatic and Dominion have publicly rejected claims tying them to the Venezuelan government or to each other, with Smartmatic emphasizing it is not Venezuelan and has “no ties to governments or...
Fox News’ credibility over the past five years has been most affected by high‑profile defamation litigation tied to its 2020 election coverage — including a $787.5 million Dominion settlement in April...
Between 2020 and 2025 multiple plaintiffs sued Fox News over alleged election- and COVID‑19‑related falsehoods: the major, widely reported plaintiffs were Dominion Voting Systems (which filed in 2021 ...
Official fact-checks and multiple court rulings have rejected or found false the central claims that Dominion Voting Systems was owned, controlled, or operated by foreign governments or foreign politi...