Dominion Voting Systems and Fox reach last-minute settlement in defamation lawsuit
Dominion sued in 2021, contending its business was ruined by false vote-rigging claimsRepresentatives of Fox News arrive at the justice centre in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday for the Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox.
Dominion's CEO disclosed the settlement figure and said Fox had admitted to telling lies about his company. Dominion lawyers declined to answer questions about whether Fox News would apologize publicly or make reforms. The decision to settle also followed a ruling by the judge that Fox could not invoke free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution in its defence.
The primary question for jurors was to be whether Fox knowingly spread false information or recklessly disregarded the truth, the standard of "actual malice" that Dominion must show to prevail in a defamation case. Based on a slew of internal communications, Dominion alleged that Fox staff, from newsroom employees all the way up to Murdoch, knew the statements were false but continued to air them out of fear of losing viewers to media competitors on the right.
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