The Fox News settlement.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Fox-Dominion settlement. On Tuesday, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle their defamation lawsuit and avoid a trial, marking the largest ever defamation settlement in U.S. history. The voting machine company had sued Fox News for $1.6 billion, arguing that Fox damaged its reputation by airing libelous theories that its equipment had switched votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum. Some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Dominion settlement. Yesterday, Fox News and Dominion settled their lawsuit in a rather stunning turn of events. |
| 1:13.2 | It happened late yesterday afternoon, and today we are going to jump in. |
| 1:17.8 | Before we do, though, I want to give a quick correction. |
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| 1:54.8 | All right, with that correction out of the way, |
| 1:56.2 | we're going to jump in today with our quick hits. |
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