Fox News is an enormously profitable the main profit driver behind Fox Corp which was also named as a defendant in the suit. So what dominion gets is $787 and a half million dollars. It's minimally damaging for Fox News but I will say that the discovery materials and the tremendous amount of negative publicity for Fox over the past two months is a moment of accountability and transparency the Fox has rarely if ever seen.
$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.)
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