On Apr. 18, 2022, FOX News, a prominent U.S. news organization, agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems a record-breaking $787 million in a settlement to resolve “fake news” allegations. Dominion Voting Systems originally sought $1.6 billion in damages against the mass media company, alleging that the news network had repeatedly claimed that the company falsely rigged its voting machines against former President Donald Trump during his 2020 reelection campaign. FOX News asserted that the organization was simply reporting what certain Republican lawmakers had claimed about Dominion Voting’s machines—that said, the organization must be held responsible for the sizeable damage it has done.
This lawsuit relates to the aftermath of the 2020 election, in which former President Trump had repeatedly made false claims that the election was rigged against him, in favor of the Democratic candidate, President Joe Biden. In the three years since the election, no significant evidence has been discovered to support election interference, making Trump’s antics nothing more than a reflection of his own denial and political strategy to return to the throne. According to PBS News, “Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, found no evidence of widespread election fraud. Trump’s allegations of voting fraud also have been dismissed by a succession of judges and refuted by state election officials and an arm of his own administration’s Homeland Security Department.” An Associated Press...
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