The truth matters. Lies have consequences. Fox News is going to pay $787.5 million to

dominion voting systems to settle a defamation lawsuit. Through the process of discovery in

that suit, we learned that Fox didn't believe the lies it told about who won the 2020

election. It told them because it didn't want to lose its audience of Trump supporters.

The terms of the settlement dictate that Fox won't have to cop to its lies and Rupert Murdoch

and other Fox grandees won't have to testify, but Fox is almost astonishingly facing another

multi-billion dollar lawsuit by a different voting company on exactly the same grounds.

Coming up on today's explained, what happened and what's next for Fox News?

It's today explained. I'm Newell King. The Washington Post media critic Eric Wemple was there at

the courthouse yesterday, like everyone else, expecting a trial to start soon.

They delayed the trial on Monday, a full day, because the parties were trying to settle. And

then we got in there on Tuesday and we were all expecting everything to go. And they

finished selecting the jury on Tuesday morning. And then on Tuesday afternoon, we were all

settled in for the opening statements. And we just kept waiting, waiting, waiting. And

some people, especially that there were serious settlement discussions going on, others people

thought there might be a jury issue. But mainly you just don't know. So then the judge

came back after a long, like two hour absence and said the parties have resolved the matter.

And so we're off to the races, trying to get statements and trying to figure out what happened.

You know, there's only so much information that spills out after something like the

settlements are so often just shrouded in complete mystery. But at least in this case, we got a number.

Let's go back to the beginning. Dominion accused Fox News of doing what? Exactly.

This is a defamation case. Dominion accused Fox News of publishing falsehoods about its business

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