Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday filed separate $1.6 billion lawsuits against One America News Network , Newsmax Media Inc. and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, accusing them of deliberately lying about the 2020 presidential election and defaming the voting machine company.

The voting machine company alleges OANN and Newsmax deliberately created and cultivated an alternate reality where up is down, pigs have wings, and Dominion engaged in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote, all in a quest for profits and viewers.

Byrne was accused of bankrolling and promoting a conspiracy theory, based on manufactured evidence, to convince the world that the 2020 election had been stolen by an international conspiracy of China, Venezuelan and Spanish companies, prominent Republicans , numerous federal agencies, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Dominion.

Dominion alleged that Byrne, like Newsmax and OANN, spread the lies with the goal of making money.

Byrne is a Dartmouth-educated Marshall Scholar with a PhD from Stanford who, until he was pushed out in disgrace in 2019, had a national platform as the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company, says the suit against Byrne, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia.

He previously invested millions of dollars in and continues promoting blockchain voting technology, which can succeed only if voters and elected officials reject the auditable paper-based voting systems currently provided by Dominion, the suit says.

The companys lawsuit against OANN also was filed in federal court in Washington; the Newsmax lawsuit was filed in state court in Delaware.