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I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Souterman, and they triumphantly returning

at a tricks with the most tricks Katherine Mangu Ward.

Hi, everyone.

Howdy.

Hey, Matt.

Happy Monday.

This week saw the largest defamation settlement involving a U.S. media company in American

history.

Fox News agreed to pay Dominion voting systems $787.5 million rather than go to a trial

that would have featured witness stand testimony from the likes of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity,

Rupert Murdoch.

The cable's news giants hosts such as Lou Dobbs, no, it works there, had repeatedly

stated in November and December of 2020 that the presidential election of Joe Biden

beating Donald Trump had come under Dobbs, quote, here, massive cyber attack orchestrated

with the help of Dominion Smartmatic and foreign adversaries, and that individual states

had, quote, no ability to audit meaningfully the votes that are cast because the servers

are somewhere else and are considered proprietary.

These claims and others besides, were not only false, but had been determined unequivocally

as false by Fox's internal brain room, which were also believed to be Cuckoo bananas as

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