Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion in damages over allegations that Dominion used its machines to change the outcome of the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden.
In the United States, the news channel Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, which manufactures voting machines, have reached an agreement. This means that the trial will not take place.
According to the agreement, Fox News will pay Dominion $787.5 million in damages.
It’s about Fox News spreading conspiracy theories on its channel after the 2020 presidential election about how Dominion’s equipment was used by then-President Donald Trump’s to the anti-election fraud.
Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion (just under €1.5 billion) in damages over allegations that Dominion used its machines to change the 2020 election result Joe Biden for.
Numerous experts speculated before the trial that the settlement was very strong for Dominion. Dominion had ample evidence to show that Fox News management and its star anchors knew the allegations of election fraud were untrue. Despite this, the channel continued to spread the allegations on its channel.
Earlier affidavits revealed that Fox News, which strongly supported Trump, did not dare to say that Trump had lost the election, because the viewers would have switched to another, even more conservative channel, Newsmax, which was equally adamant about Trump’s victory.
Founder and chairman of the Fox media corporation Rupert Murdoch on the other hand, admitted in his testimony that he did not interfere with the spread of election fraud claims on the channel, even though he could have done so.
Among other things, Murdoch was asked whether he could have prevented the lawyers who spread Trump’s election fraud allegations by Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani appearance on the channel.
– I could have, but I didn’t, Murdoch replied.
The news will be updated.