Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Fox News reached a last-second settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday as the case raced toward opening statements, paying more than $787 million. Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems is the largest publicly known defamation settlement in U.S. history involving a media company. Davida Brook, the lead counsel for Dominion Voting Systems, talks with Anderson about the settlement.

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0:00.0	Good evening, Fox Blank.
0:03.1	On the day that Fox attorneys and the attorneys for Dominion voting systems, the company that
0:06.8	was suing them for defamation were to make opening statement in their $1.6 billion lawsuit,
0:12.5	Fox decided to settle $787.5 million.
0:16.8	That's how much the Fox Corporation will pay.
0:18.9	It's half of what Dominion says they were seeking, but a historic amount, nonetheless.
0:23.9	The Fox Corporation clearly deciding it was better to pay the money than have their
0:27.3	star anchors try to explain under oath the election denialism and disinformation they
0:32.0	either spread themselves or help spread by giving others who are lying a platform night
0:36.9	after night after night.
0:38.7	In a statement after the settlement was announced, Fox said, and I quote,
0:42.6	we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.
0:47.4	The settlement reflects Fox's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.
0:52.0	Now, I just want to repeat that.
0:54.2	The first part of it said, we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims
0:58.0	about Dominion to be false.
1:00.1	That might sound sort of maybe like an apology, but it's not.
1:04.4	They acknowledge the court ruling doesn't really mean anything, and they're a description
1:08.3	that certain claims about Dominion were false is vague at best.
1:12.6	As for the second part of that statement, that this settlement reflects Fox's continued
1:16.9	commitment to the highest journalistic standards, as Mike Wallace used to say when interviewing
1:21.2	someone shoveling crap, come on.
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