Fox News is paying $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems. The terms of the settlement dictate that Fox won't have to cop to its lies, and Rupert Murdoch and other Fox grandees won't be forced to testify. But Fox is almost astonishingly facing another multi-billion dollar lawsuit by a different voting company on exactly the same grounds.
$787.5 million. (To Dominion Voting Systems, averting a defamation trial that could have been disastrous for the network. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple explains.)
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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