A high-profile defamation case against Fox News and its parent corporation by voting systems company Dominion has ended with a last-minute settlement deal, allowing the conservative network to avoid a closely watched trial on the same day those proceedings were set to start.
Because of the $787.5m settlement, the public will not hear testimony – at least in this case – from Fox News owner and corporation chair Rupert Murdoch, or any of the firebrand conservative personalities that fill the network’s airtime. The public will also not see any new evidence to support Dominion’s allegation that the false information Fox News spread about the company in the wake of the 2020 presidential election amounted to “actual malice”.
