{"id":39727,"date":"2025-03-14T04:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39727"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:48:45","slug":"newsmax-reveals-it-agreed-to-pay-smartmatic-40m-in-settlement-with-the-voting-machine-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39727","title":{"rendered":"Newsmax reveals it agreed to pay Smartmatic $40M in settlement with the voting machine company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newsmax agreed to pay Smartmatic $40 million as part of a settlement last year following the voting technology company\u2019s election defamation lawsuit<\/a> against the right-wing news outlet, according to a new regulatory filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The settlement, reached in September, included a cash payment and an option to purchase stock in Newsmax, the media company said in its filing<\/a>. Newsmax said payments totaling $20 million have already been made, with the rest coming before July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cManagement believes the settlement with Smartmatic will, subject to the payment of all consideration in a timely manner, eliminate future legal expenses the Company would have expected to bear related to this suit, which could have included costly appellate legal actions and other matters,\u201d Newsmax wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsmax did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of the payments provide insight into the confidential settlement agreement that were not publicly available last year. The 2021 lawsuit centered<\/a> on Newsmax\u2019s false claims that Smartmatic\u2019s machines manipulated the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. A deal was reached shortly before the case was set to go to trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the settlement last year, Newsmax said in a statement<\/a> that it \u201cacknowledges that the Court found that \u2018allegations regarding whether the [2020 U.S. presidential election] and its results were somehow altered or manipulated by Smartmatic are factually false\/untrue.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smartmatic settled a related defamation\u2002lawsuit<\/a> in April against One America News for a sum that also was not disclosed publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J. Erik Connolly, an external lawyer for Smartmatic, said in a statement Thursday that the company is now focused on a similar case against Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We look forward to presenting our evidence to a jury and finally having the opportunity to hold Fox accountable for its harmful actions,\u201d Connolly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox has said it covered newsworthy events and people surrounding the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News\u2019 parent company, Fox Corp., reached a settlement in 2023 to pay $787.5 million<\/a> to the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newsmax agreed to pay Smartmatic $40 million as part of a settlement last year following the voting technology company\u2019s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news outlet, according to a new regulatory filing. The settlement, reached in September, included a cash payment and an option to purchase stock in Newsmax, the media company said in its filing. Newsmax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1613,32686,4336,32687,3165],"class_list":["post-39727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-election","tag-newsmax","tag-reconciliation","tag-smartmatic","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39729,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727\/revisions\/39729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}