where fox news network has reached a last minute settlement, in a defamation case brought against it by a voting machine company. the case is linked to claims that the 2020 us presidential election was rigged against donald trump. fox news agreed to pay dominion $787.5 million. with the settlement, fox will avoid a high profile trial. dominion voting systems sued fox news for $1.6 billion, so they actually settled for lesss than half of what they were asking for. let s remind you of the background to all of this. this all came about because dominion claimed that their reputation was damaged after fox knowingly spread lies about its voting machines after the 2020 us election. they were repeating claims by then president donald trump who had falsely claimed that dominion voting machines rigged the election to favour winnerjoe biden. dominion said fox hosts amplified the baseless allegations , but at the time, fox claimed it was newsworthy. this is how dominion responded to set
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