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Fox, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787 million settlement over false election claims
Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787 million settlement Tuesday in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election.
www.pbs.org
“ . . Dominion had asked for $1.6 billion in arguing that Fox had damaged its reputation by helping peddle phony conspiracy theories about its equipment switching votes from former President Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Fox said the amount greatly overstated the value of the Colorado-based company. . ”
“ . . Records released as part of the lawsuit showed how Fox hosts and executives did not believe the claims by Trump's allies but aired them anyway, in part to win back viewers who were fleeing the network after it correctly called hotly contested Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden on election night. . ”
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And that’s what emails can show. That you aired the stuff that you didn’t even believe in the first place.
But still—
With the very high standards we have here in the U.S. to prove slander or libel against a public official, and presumably against a public corporation as well, there’s no guarantee Dominion would have won with the jury or on appeals.
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