Newsmax has settled with Dominion Voting Systems in its lawsuit over the network’s amplification of false claims that it was involved in rigging the 2020 presidential election.

The lawsuit was settled for $67 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The payments will be made in three installments over the next two years. The settlement also was noted in the docket in Delaware Superior Court.

In April, Judge Eric M. Davis, in a summary judgment ruling, determined that Newsmax ran defamatory and false statements about Dominion in the aftermath of the 2020 election, as personalities and guests amplified claims that the company was involved in rigging the results. He left it up to a jury to decide whether Newsmax was liable for actual malice, and whether Dominion could collect punitive damages.

The judge cited more than two dozen statements made on Newsmax as defamatory per se, or the presumption that they were harmful and damaging. “The court concludes that all the statements are per se defamatory because each suggests that Dominion aided in election fraud,” the judge wrote.

A trial was expected to start later this year.

In a statement, Newsmax said, “Newsmax believed it was critically important for the American people to hear both sides of the election disputes that arose in 2020. We stand by our coverage as fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.”

The Newsmax statement also was critical of the judge,...

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