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to keep lying Trump surrogates who espoused the theories off of Fox’s shows. “I could have. But I didn’t,” he said, according to a Dominion court filing.
“It does impact these questions of when can reporters repeat newsworthy but false allegations made by high public officials,” says Lyrissa Lydskey, a prominent media law scholar based at the University of Florida. “Can they report to us newsworthy but false allegations without fear of crippling defamation liability?”
The company has already made a case in pre-trial hearings, offering evidence that Dominion has enjoyed robust results in recent months, well after claims against it were aired on Fox News. One Fox attorney cited “financials that show that Dominion has not been harmed to the extent that their expert has suggested.”
If the case doesn’t go Fox’s way, the company would likely appeal and, in doing so, could set a trajectory for a higher court, where a change to current libel laws might become a possibility, says Bob Richards, a professor of First Amendment studies at Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications. “Any time a high-profile case is made against a news organization, there is always potential for laws to be somehow affected that may in the long run affect all media,” he says.
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