POLITICO (REMINDER FROM 4/18/2023)
WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit over false election claims, a massive sum that spared some of the biggest names in conservative media the witness stand…
“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion attorney Justin Nelson said…
Indeed, the case represented both a financial blow to Fox and a source of embarrassment, thanks largely to a spectacular discovery process….
Highlights included Carlson seeming to privately wish for Trump to vanish from the national stage even as he publicly embraced him: “I hate him passionately,” Carlson told a colleague in one now-notorious personal exchange. Likewise, Fox titan Rupert Murdoch was deposed and also had his communications revealed, including an email in which he seemed to wrestle with whether his anchors Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham had been too willing to indulge in Trump’s fantasies of election theft: “Still getting mud thrown at us!” he wrote on Jan. 21, 2021, weeks after the Capitol riot. “Maybe Sean and Laura went too far.”
Fox News reaches $787.5 million settlement in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit – POLITICO