Are Fox New’s days of “endorsing” lies over?
Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News making wild and spurious allegations of fraud during the 2020 presidential election has resulted in an out-of-court settlement that will see the right-wing US television network pay $787,500,000, sparing it the humiliation of a trial it was certain to lose, and a public apology.
The settlement is possibly the highest ever paid by a company in a defamation suit, although in many high-profile cases the figures are not made public. Dominion Voting Systems has gone to great lengths to gather all the evidence about the assertions that Fox News a number of other bad actors had made, and to publish the evidence that showed not only were they all false, but that the lies were spread in an attempt to manipulate and please its viewers, most of whom vote for Donald Trump.
What were the facts? After the 2020 presidential elections, Dominion Voting System and Smartmatic, which provide electronic voting hardware and software, were accused by Donald Trump, along with his campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, as well as the ex-CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, and Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, if being part of a conspiracy that had transferred millions of votes cast for Trump to Joe Biden. Those lies were broadcast by Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, American Thinker, and One…
