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John Poulos, CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, with David Walmsley

Season 1, Ep. 6

The co-founder and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems talks about how he took on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News in the courts – and won. 


From Tortoise Media, in partnership with the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit for Investigative Journalism, Tina Brown Media, Reuters and Durham University.


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