Dominion Voting Systems has sued Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., for $1.6 billion. That might seem like an exorbitant amount of money. But consider the craziness of the claims Fox News employees made on the air about the 2020 presidential election’s being stolen.

That might seem like an exorbitant amount of money. But consider the craziness of the claims Fox News employees made on the air.

Dominion sells both voting machines and software. Fox News is a media corporation whose hosts or guests, according to Dominion, spread lies — many lies — about the 2020 election’s being stolen. As it turns out, that election, which Joe Biden won by 7 million votes, was not stolen. Fox News denies any wrongdoing, and it has previously slammed the lawsuit as "baseless." But what is clear is that rampant voter fraud is a myth.

One of the lies Dominion accuses Fox of spreading centered on the idea that Dominion rigged the election for Biden. Another involves the claim that Dominion is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chávez (who has been dead for almost a decade).

Dominion has asserted that these statements ruined its reputation and caused significant financial losses. Thus its lawsuit against Fox News for defamation and its demand for over a billion dollars. Defamation law requires that the defendant (in this case, Fox News) made a false statement of fact about the plaintiff (that is, Dominion), which caused the defendant harm and was made with...

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