https://www.npr.org/2021/02/04/964097006/election-tech-company-sues-fox-news-giuliani-and-others-for-2-7-billion

" This is an interesting take on the tort of defamation, with immediate impact on our culture. "

After reading the article, post at least one paragraph addressing the following questions.

What are the actual facts (related to the elements of defamation) that Smartmatic will have to allege to present a prima facie case? What actual facts would support any defense on the part of Fox News or the individual persons that are being sued? Without allowing your personal political views to color your analysis, what are the legal merits of Smartmatic's claims, or Fox News' defenses? What impact could a ruling in favor of Smartmatic have on defamation law in general? What impact could a ruling in favor of Fox News have?

The rubric I will use to grade this assignment is as follows:

4 - Initial paragraph

4 - Responsive paragraph 1

4 - Responsive paragraph 2

3 - Responses to my comments

Each paragraph will be graded on the following elements:

• Depth of analysis
• Originality
• Accuracy
• Grammar / spelling / style

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can you help me organize my work into what the teacher is looking for?

No business or company would want to break their reputation on their specific industries. Each company would make sure that all concerns and problems are solved before it can make a lot of issues that can bring damage to the company.

Defamation is a form of degrading one's reputation by giving false statement towards the other party. Defamation may either be slander or libel. Libel is a defamatory statement in a form of writing or other visible forms in which slander showed defamatory statement. A defamatory statement has the probability to harm the reputation of another individual or company, which may degrade the opinion of the concerned person in society and this may effect in him or her being hated, mocked, or feared. In most cases, the defamed person or company will almost always claim that it resulted in a loss of income.

One of the example of a defamation issue is about filing a massive lawsuit of Smartmatic against fox stars Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, as well as Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

The defamation and disparagement lawsuit strives more than $2.7 billion, with a damage from what Smartmatic refers to a "disinformation campaign" that was conducted by people who were unhappy and dissatisfied with new President Biden's victory.