Dominion and Fox are set to face off in a historic defamation trial.
The voting equipment company has accused Fox News and Fox Corp, the right-wing mass media network part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, of damaging its reputation while knowingly spreading lies about the 2020 US presidential election.
A five-week-long trial begins Apr. 17 in Delaware. A jury will determine if Fox must pay Dominion $1.6 billion in damages. A key part of that decision is identifying who at Fox greenlit the defamatory coverage—Dominion asserts it went all the way to the top, despite evidence that internally Fox knew the coverage was false. Fox says the claim lacks evidence.
“The more complicit the whole organization is in perpetuating these known falsehoods, the more likely a jury would be to return a big dollar figure,” said UNC School of Law professor Mary-Rose Papandrea in a statement to Reuters.
It’s not just money on the line for Fox. The trial questions whether Fox discarded journalistic ethics in pursuit of higher viewership and ratings, damaging the company’s reputation—if not among its viewers, at least in the eyes of its shareholders.
Jury selection for the trial begins tomorrow (Apr. 13), but a series of pre-trial judgements and unearthed private documents have already shaped the legal battleground facing America’s most-watched cable news network.
Here’s what you need to know about the case.
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