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Newsmax will pay $40 million to settle Smartmatic voting machine allegations
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TL;DR
- Newsmax will pay $40 million to Smartmatic to settle defamation claims.
- The settlement includes $20 million already paid and the remainder due by July.
- Smartmatic sued Newsmax in 2021 over false claims about its voting machines influencing the 2020 election.
- Newsmax faces another lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.
- Smartmatic previously settled with One America News and has an ongoing lawsuit against Fox Corp.