Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to resolve Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit alleging the network aired false claims that its technology rigged the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The settlement was finalized on Aug. 15 and disclosed in an SEC filing made public Monday.

According to the filing, Newsmax will pay the $67 million in three installments: $27 million on Aug. 15, 2025, $20 million by Jan. 15, 2026, and $20 million by Jan. 15, 2027.

Dominion confirmed the agreement, saying, “We are pleased to have settled this matter.” Newsmax said it “stands by” its coverage as “fair [and] balanced,” and did not issue an apology.

The settlement follows a series of rulings in Delaware Superior Court that had positioned the case for trial. In April, Judge Eric M. Davis found that Newsmax’s statements about Dominion were false and defamatory as a matter of law, leaving a jury to decide issues including “actual malice” and damages. The settlement rendered these issues moot.

Dominion’s claims targeted broadcasts and an online post that, among other things, alleged the company aided election fraud, manipulated votes through software, had ties to Venezuela, and paid kickbacks to officials, assertions of which the court concluded were defamatory per se.

Defamation per se refers to a narrow class of false statements so inherently damaging that the law presumes harm to the plaintiff’s reputation without requiring proof of specific monetary loss. Traditionally, these are...

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