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Fox News reached a last-second settlement with Dominion voting system on Tuesday as the case competes to open statements, paying more than $787 million to end A huge two-year legal struggle This publicly shreds the credibility of the right-wing network.
The $787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion voting system is the largest publicly defamatory settlement in U.S. history, involving a media company.
The deal was announced hours after a jury swore in Delaware Superior Court. After lunch break, the lawsuit was stopped sharply for nearly three hours without explanation, and when the parties apparently finalized the agreement, the lawsuit spun in the court building for nearly three hours.
“The parties have settled the case,” said Judge Eric Davis. They brought the parties to the motivation to settle the ground before dismissing the jury of 12 members, adorable praise. The “experiment of the century” of lawyers on both sides can even begin.
Dominion attorney Justin Nelson said the groundbreaking solution “represents defense and accountability.” “To make our democracy endure for another 250 years and hope for a longer time, we must share our commitment to facts… Today represents support for truth and democracy.”
Right-wing network said in a statement, “Acknowledge[s] The court’s ruling found some claims about rule being wrong. ” Davis’s recent ruling In 20 Fox News broadcasts starting at the end of 2020, it was blatantly untrue to assert that Dominion manipulated the presidential election. But Fox doesn’t have to admit in the air that it spreads lies about domination, a dominant deputy told CNN.
$787.5 million spent about half of the dominant $1.6 billion Initial searchAlthough that’s nearly 10 times the company’s valuation, about eight times the annual revenue in 2021, according to court documents.
The last minute agreement refers to Cases closely watched The trial has been completed and will not continue. By settling with Dominion, influential Fox news directors and prominent live streamers will be Free from testimony On the 2020 election report, this is full of lies about voter fraud.
this List of witnesses Including Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch, his CEO son Lachlan Murdoch, and Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson (Tucker Carlson) and other top fox hosts. During this case, damn emails, texts and testimony publicly stated that the numbers, as well as many at Fox, privately stated in 2020 that the number of votes on Dominion was Asinine. But anyway, lies are spreading in the air.
Rupert Murdoch’s Thoughts Election negation is “really crazy”, even as Fox personality characters peddled the same proposition to millions of viewers. Carlson says he “Enthusiasm” hates Donald Trumpthe presidency is a “disaster”. Fox’s host, producer, fact inspector and senior executive said privately that in the air claim of the stolen election, it was “weird”, “dangerous reckless” and “incredibly crazy”.
These revelations have been produced month of Bubble Fox’s headlines when the case is heading towards trial. By now settling, Fox deprives Dominion of the opportunity to further expose his dishonesty through a week-long trial.
“This settlement reflects Fox’s ongoing commitment to the highest standards of news,” Fox said in a statement Tuesday. “We hope that our decision to settle this dispute friendly with Dominion, rather than a bickering of a separatist trial,” Fox said in a statement on Tuesday. The country is able to move forward from these issues.”
Fox News and Fox Corporation (its parent company) are also defendants – insisting that they never slander Dominion and saying the case is a useless attack on First Amendment press freedom.
In recent days, speculation about settlements has reached a fever, especially when the court announced on Sunday One-day delay The trial will begin initially on Monday.
this Jury selection process As planned, the end was planned on Tuesday morning, with both parties preparing for opening speeches. They even briefly tangled up their objections to the specific slides in the presentation. But when the lawsuit after lunch did not immediately recover, even as the top lawyers on both sides sat in court, looked at their phone calls and waited, the chances of a deal seemed to increase in a minute.
A racially diverse jury of six men and six women was brought back to the court to prepare for a historic trial in front row seats. But Judge Davis told the group that they helped stimulate the solution.
“You have a short presence here compared to your idea and it’s very important in a sense,” Davis said. “Without you, all parties will not be able to resolve their situation.”
Many in the rule viewed settlement as a victory for democracy and the truth itself.
“Fox admitted that lies were a lie that caused great damage to my company, our employees and the customers we serve,” Dominion CEO John Poulos said outside court Tuesday.
Even though the Dominion case is over, Fox News is still facing it SmartMatic’s second major libel lawsuitanother voting technology company similarly smeared on Fox News’ show after the 2020 election. The case is still being discovered and is not expected to be tested anytime soon.
For its part, Dominion is still filing lawsuits against right-wing television networks Newsmax and Oan, as well as against Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell. They all deny wrongdoing.
CNN’s Liam Reilly and Danny Freeman contributed to the story.
