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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an code connected Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Fox News connected Friday, seeking damages of astatine slightest $787 cardinal from the blimpish web for allegedly defaming him successful its reporting of a telephone telephone helium had with President Donald Trump.
"No much lies," Newsom wrote successful a tweet that announced his lawsuit, which was filed successful Delaware, wherever Fox News is incorporated.
The magnitude of the damages that Newsom is demanding is astir precisely the magnitude that Fox Corp. and its cablegram networks, among them Fox News, agreed to wage Dominion Voting Systems successful April 2023 to settee Dominion's suit successful Delaware alleging that the networks defamed the institution by falsely claiming its machines swayed the result of the 2020 statesmanlike election.
CNBC has requested remark from Fox News connected Newsom's lawsuit.
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