Just hours before a trial was about to start in Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation suit against Fox News for its 2020 election coverage, the network reached a $787m settlement to avert further legal action.
Despite the settlement, there will be no retractions or on-air apologies on Fox, a source with knowledge of the agreement told The Independent.
The network, in a statement, admitted that a Delaware court found “certain claims about Dominion to be false”, but that’s likely as far as the broadcaster will go when it comes to considering its prominent role in broadcasting election conspiracies to viewers, despite records unearthed in the suit suggesting top figures at Fox knew such claims were false.
Minutes after the announcement of the Fox News-Dominion settlement, Fox media analyst Howard Kurtz calls the lies that Dominion stole votes from Donald Trump — which the network helped spread — “obviously false” and “conspiracy theories.” pic.twitter.com/t1FKDfxjG3
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Following the settlement, the network devoted some time to covering the Dominion case and Fox’s role in it.
“The idea that Dominion voting machines, former president Trump and his allies made this case on Fox and elsewhere, were somehow stealing votes from Donald Trump and flipping them to Joe Biden, that’s obviously false. Those were conspiracy theories,” Fox media analyst Howard Kurtz said in one segment on Tuesday.
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