Just hours after the trial started in the defamation case Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox News, the two sides have come to a deal.
, both conservative media outlets that had been cutting into Fox's audience with their own batshit-crazy accusations.
And after that candid conversation between two Fox stars, Carlson continued hosting Powell and fellow election deniers on his show, as did other hosts, sharing their debunked accusations with the"good people" who watched Fox. While the law shields journalists from liability if they unknowingly report on false statements, those protections are lost if they continue to promote statements that they know are false.
Asked if he thought Trump was wrong to say that the election had been stolen, Murdoch replied: “Yes. I mean, we thought everything was on the up-and-up.” You can expect plenty of headlines, as well as endless legal scrutiny, as the trial proceeds...if it does. Thethat Fox and former host Lou Dobbs settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, who claimed he was falsely accused of having helped Dominion and Smartmatic USA Corp. — another voting machine company that's filed its own defamation suits — rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Trump.
The evidence is “CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true,” he wrote in his 81-page decision, citing the assertions that the company was controlled by Venezuela and employed an algorithm to boost the Democratic vote count.
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