Fox News on Friday ran a segment clarifying a number of claims about election software firm Smartmatic, after the company threatened to sue the network over what it said was the publication of “false and defamatory statements.” Smartmatic last week threatened litigation against Fox, Newsmax, and OANN, announcing that Smartmatic had sent a number of retraction demand letters which “identify dozens of factually inaccurate statements made by each of the organizations as part of a ‘disinformation campaign’ to injure Smartmatic and discredit the 2020 U.S. election.” The letter sent to Fox News Channel (pdf) included a list of allegedly false and defamatory claims about Smartmatic aired on the network’s programs. These included claims that Smartmatic has a corporate relationship with Dominion Voting Systems, that Smartmatic “has a corrupt relationship with the Venezuelan government, including Hugo Chávez,” that Smartmatic election products “were designed and used to fix elections,” including the 2020 …