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5 Things You Should Read About the Huge Fox News Defamation Settlement

Unpacking the broadcasting giant’s $757.5 million defamation suit settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

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Fox News Settles Blockbuster Defamation Lawsuit With Dominion Voting Systems

Fox News has struck a deal averting a trial in the blockbuster defamation suit filed by the election-tech company Dominion Voting Systems over spurious claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

How It Happened: Inside the Historic Settlement Between Fox News and Dominion

CNN aspoke to multiple people with direct knowledge of the events leading up to the $787.5 million out-of-court deal, the largest publicly known settlement ever for a U.S. defamation case against a media outlet.

The Dominion Settlement Is Just the Beginning of Fox and Rupert Murdoch's Nightmare

Other companies, such as Smartmatic, will surely be emboldened in their own defamation suits against Fox, which share basically the same fact patterns as Dominion’s.

Rupert Wins Again

For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business.

Why It’s Fine that Fox and Dominion Settled

Murdoch testimony would have been more fun to watch than Succession. But the trial wouldn’t have fixed the bigger problem.

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