The financial toll of airing lies and bogus conspiracy theories about Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election has already reached nearly $1bn after a settlement and verdict in two major defamation cases in this year alone.
On Friday, following a four-day trial in Washington DC, Rudy Giuliani was ordered to pay more than $148m for defaming two former election workers in Georgia, not including the tens of thousands of dollars he was ordered to pay in other sanctions throughout the case.
