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The Big Lie Cost Fox $787 Million

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a historic settlement, Fox News agrees to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million for airing lies about the 2020 election. A Sudan ceasefire lasts only minutes. And outraged Oklahomans are demanding resignations after city council members discuss lynchings behind closed doors. Help Start Here win a Webby Award for best episode by a News & Politics show! Vote here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2023/podcasts/individual-episodes/news-politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Each Wednesday April 19th and the big lie has become a really expensive lie. We start here.

0:30.4

Lies have consequences. In a last ditch move to avoid a defamation trial, Fox News reaches a

0:37.2

historic settlement. What appears to be the largest settlement of its kind? It didn't have to

0:41.8

apologize, but this much money speaks pretty loudly. A ceasefire lasts only minutes in Sudan.

0:48.0

They don't have electricity and some of their medical supplies are running low.

0:52.9

Now we're hearing from civilians just trying to survive. When they thought they were alone,

0:57.4

these local lawmakers talked about the good old days of lynchings.

1:01.1

There were two holes that they knew of that they could presumably dump the body in.

1:05.9

How a small town in Oklahoma has become the scene of a growing investigation.

1:12.2

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

1:16.4

What is the cost of a lie? Well, when you think about the lies that were told around the 2020

1:29.2

election, there were several costs. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any

1:36.4

ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and add them to the list. Okay.

1:42.0

It was a cost to voters who weren't sure what to believe as groups like Fox News

1:45.9

aired claims that were wrong. Allegedly, Fox even knew they were wrong. We don't know how many

1:50.8

votes were stolen on Tuesday night. We don't know anything about the software that many say was

1:55.2

rigged. We don't know. We ought to find out. And we have a machine, the Dominion machine that's

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