A number of Fox News and Fox Business shows broadcast a fact check on false claims made by Fox network hosts about Smartmatic election software after Smartmatic filed a defamation suit against the network.

https://youtu.be/Tka8ccNR3Ds

It should be noted that the fact check did not include a retraction of the previous statements by hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. 

The same fact check, done by Eddie Perez of the Open Source Election Technology Institute, provided independent facts on numerous claims advocated by supporters of lame duck president Donald Trump, who falsely claimed a wide-ranging conspiracy to deny him reelection.  Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won the November election in both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote by large margins.

The pre-recorded fact check video was run Friday and Saturday on the programs hosted by Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro (which was broadcast by a guest host).  Dobbs introduced the segment by continuing to claim that there are “Many different opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail in voting, or election voting machines and voting software.”

Dobbs neglected to mention that most of those opinions, as stated by Fox News, Fox Business and by Trump are wrong and have been debunked.

The fact check, which doesn’t include a retraction of previous claims, was one of the remedies requested in a 22-page defamation suit filed by Smartmatic because it claimed damages because of lost business opportunities caused by lies aired by right-wing propaganda networks.  Smartmatic demanded that the networks broadcast correct information multiple times in the timeslots where the lies were stated.