Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Florida-based Newsmax Broadcasting accuses Fox News and its owner of anti-competitive behavior to monopolize "right-leaning" news in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida names Fox Corp. and New News Network as defendants and accuses them of violating the Sherman Act, the Florida Antitrust Act and the Florida Deceptive & Unfair Trade Practices Act.
The "Fox Corporation has long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for U.S. right-leaning pay TV news, resulting in suppression of competition in that market that harms consumers, competition and Newsmax Broadcasting," Newsmax says.
Fox News Network "operates the Fox News Channel -- the cable news network with the highest viewership in the United States," Newsmax officials argue.
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