Breaking: Fox News settles with Dominion at the very last minute
Photo: JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockDominion Voting Systems against Fox News
, the two parties announced that they had settled out of court. The dramatic move, which came after a jury was selected but ahead of opening arguments, averted a sure-to-be entertaining spectacle that would have aired more of the Fox’s dirty laundry, and may well have ended in an even greater financial loss.
Dominion had alleged that Fox News personalities grieviously damaged its business by falsely stating that it had helped rig the 2020 election for President Biden — and that the network knew that its claims were untrue. Defamation cases are notoriously difficult to prove in U.S. courts, but Dominion was thought to have an
. Fox News has been scrambling to negotiate a settlement over the weekend, an indication of how it felt about its chances in court.Daily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.
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