Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks throughout an handle on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
Workplace of California Governor through AP
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Fox Information on Friday, searching for damages of no less than $787 million from the conservative community for allegedly defaming him in its reporting of a cellphone name he had with President Donald Trump.
“No extra lies,” Newsom wrote in a tweet that introduced his lawsuit, which was filed in Delaware, the place Fox Information is integrated.
Newsom’s swimsuit is concentrated on feedback by Fox Information anchor Jesse Waters, who had stated Newsom lied concerning the name with Trump in early June.
The quantity of the damages that Newsom is demanding is nearly precisely the quantity that Fox Corp. and its cable networks, amongst them Fox Information, agreed to pay Dominion Voting Programs in April 2023 to settle Dominion’s lawsuit in Delaware alleging that the networks defamed the corporate by falsely claiming its machines swayed the result of the 2020 presidential election.
“If Fox Information needs to deceive the American folks on Donald Trump’s behalf, it ought to face penalties — identical to it did within the Dominion case,” Newsom advised Politico in a press release on the swimsuit.
“Till Fox is prepared to be truthful, I’ll hold preventing in opposition to their propaganda machine,” the Democrat advised the information outlet.
CNBC has requested remark from Fox Information on Newsom’s lawsuit.
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