"Smartmatic Alleges Criminal Activities by OAN Execs in Promoting 2020 Election Lies"

Smartmatic alleges that executives at the pro-Trump network OAN may have engaged in criminal activities by sharing a spreadsheet containing supposed passwords of Smartmatic employees, as part of their promotion of false claims about the 2020 election. The email exchange between OAN President Charles Herring and Sidney Powell has emerged as a focal point in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against OAN. Smartmatic is seeking to establish actual malice and claims that OAN executives violated state and federal laws regarding data privacy. OAN and Powell deny the allegations, while OAN settled a defamation suit with a former Dominion executive and has been dropped by DirecTV.