By Jane C. Timm. The trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News is now set to begin Tuesday in a landmark defamation case that will determine whether the network can be held Former President Donald Trump and his allies peddled lies spread by Fox News that Dominion rigged its voting machines to make Trump lose the 2020 election. Joe Biden won the vote by 4 percentage points. In its lawsuit against Fox, Dominion said airtime the network gave to false claims led to threats and harassment against staff, and lost profit. Dominion has also sued Fox News Network and other conservative news outlets, alleging they gave a platform to false statements about its role in the 2020 election. Fox News is fighting the lawsuit
Dominion has also sued Fox News Network and other conservative news outlets, alleging they gave a platform to false statements about its role in the 2020 election. Fox News is fighting the lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems is suing the cable news station and its Murdoch-owned parent company, Fox Corp, for $1.6bn £1.3bn over repeated claims that it rigged its voting machines as part of a By Jane C. Timm. WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787.5 million settlement agreement Tuesday afternoon, the parties announced, narrowly heading off a trial
On March 26, 2021, Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that Fox and some of its pundits spread conspiracy theories about Dominion, and allowed guests to make false statements about the company. New York CNN Business —. Dominion Voting Systems, a technology company that was targeted with disinformation by former President Donald Trump and allies, filed lawsuits on Tuesday against two
Former President Donald Trump and his allies peddled lies spread by Fox News that Dominion rigged its voting machines to make Trump lose the 2020 election. Joe Biden won the vote by 4 percentage points. In its lawsuit against Fox, Dominion said airtime the network gave to false claims led to threats and harassment against staff, and lost profit. The $787.5 million that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems to settle the lawsuit against the cable network appears to be one of the largest settlements in a defamation case in U.S Fox Corp.’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower. Fox has several levers it can pull to help defray the cost of the settlement. It can deduct the settlement from its income taxes as a cost of doing business, something Fox has indicated it plans to do. Also