BREAKING: Fox News waved the white flag on Tuesday, settling with Dominion Voting Systems just hours into the first day of the bombshell trial. “The parties have resolved their differences,” the judge in the case told the jury.
over whether the conservative cable giant committed “actual malice” by peddling election fraud lies about the voting software firm.A spokesperson for Dominion declined to comment. Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The quality of the briefing, the ability of attorneys to answer questions, the amount of workload that you’ve done in the case—and I just want to say, I would be proud to be your judge in the future,” Davis said. In a Sunday legal filing, Fox News lawyers also disputed the damages it would pay if found liable by a jury in the $1.6 billion suit, stating that Dominion had recently softened its claims for alleged lost profits totaling upwards of $600 million. Dominion, however, disputed the network’s characterization of its stance, stating that the “damages claim remains” and that the network was well aware that “our damages exceed $1.6 billion.
The lawsuit was spurred after various Fox News segments propagated the idea that voting machines made by Dominion were used to rig the 2020 election in favor of Democrats. That and countless conspiracies, including that Dominion was controlled by Venezuela, prompted the company to sue Fox in March 2021 for $1.6 billion in damages.
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