Fox News will have to settle their Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit and pay $787.5 million for disseminating false election fraud.
Fox News To Settle Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit For $787.5 Million Over US Election Lies (PHOTO: Investing.com)
Fox News, Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit Settlement For $787.5 Million
Fox News Statements Over Their Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit
Fox’s statement on Tuesday hinted that while the massive check it will cut to Dominion is effectively an admission of guilt and a stunning blow to its finances, the public rotates in the judgment and how it will be filtered through the conservative media world will be very heavily conditioned.
Furthermore, according to Fox that fell well short of a public mea culpa, “We accept the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be inaccurate.” Also, Fox hoped that the decision they made in resolving their Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from the issues.
Another way for the country to have been spared such outrage would have been for no one should make or amplify false voter fraud claims, which were initially pivoted by Trump and eventually helped lead to an unprecedented mass attack on Congress by his supporters.
Fox avoided having the billionaire chair of Fox Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, top editors, and stars like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson being potentially called to testify under oath about its coverage of the election. For the conservative news channel’s rivals that will be a lost purgative chance to hold Fox’s leadership to account for their conduct. Even given the conservative bubble, such a spectacle would have been brutal for Fox to conceal it.
That missing moment of accountability will be significant because claims that the 2020 election was corrupt are not some artifacts of recent history. They are a corrosive and self-perpetuating reality two years on. Trump rarely misses the opportunity to refresh his lies regarding 2020 and he just acknowledges that he was removed from office unfairly to fire up voters for his bid to regain the White House in 2024. Polls portray large numbers of conservatives have lost faith in the electoral system and falsely accuse Biden did not win sufficient votes to win the presidency. A CNN/SSRS survey in July 2022 found that only 29 percent of Republicans had confidence that US elections truly represent the will of the people.
