Newsmax has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News , claiming that it has maintained its dominance among right-leaning cable, satellite and streaming networks via an “exclusionary scheme” to suppress competition.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida on Wednesday, also names Fox Corporation as a defendant.

Newsmax claimed that Fox “employs at least three anticompetitive means to exclude competing providers of right-leaning video content from the market.” They include “explicit or tacit” “no carry” provisions on distributors that condition access on concessions not to carry other right-leaning news channels like Newsmax.

The lawsuit also claimed that Fox imposes penalties on distributors if they carry other right-leaning news channels on their basic tiers by requiring th

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