Newsmax Issues Retraction and Apology to Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

Posted Monday, May 3, 2021 10:48 am

Bente Birkeland | NPR

The right-wing media outlet Newsmax, which amplified former President Donald Trump's false allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud, said on Friday there is no evidence that Dominion Voting Systems and one of its top employees, Eric Coomer, manipulated election results in 2020.

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Newsmax Issues Retraction and Apology to Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

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