On Tuesday, shortly after a jury was picked for the trial, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion three-quarters of a billion dollars — that’s $787.5 million — to settle the lawsuit. As part of the deal, Fox was not required to apologize for airing lies about Dominion. It’s believed to be the largest media defamation settlement in history. But Fox’s legal battle is still not over. Fox still faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit from another election technology company, Smartmatic.
In the months after the 2020 elections, Fox repeatedly claimed Dominion and Smartmatic were part of a vast conspiracy to rig the election. Fox repeatedly aired conspiracy theories, even though some of the network’s most prominent hosts, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, as well as Fox Corporation Chair Rupert Murdoch, were privately admitting they knew Trump’s election fraud claims were false.
In one private exchange, on November 19th, Tucker Carlson wrote to Laura Ingraham about one of Trump’s lawyers. Carlson wrote, “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I
— source democracynow.org | Apr 20, 2023