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Fox News $787.5 Million Settlement and Embarrassing Disclosures: The Cost of Airing a Lie
The New York Times (via MSN.com) ^ | 18 April 2023 | Jim Rutenberg & Katie Robertson

Posted on 04/18/2023 7:35:15 PM PDT by zeestephen

In settling with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News has avoided an excruciating, drawn-out trial in which its founding chief, Rupert Murdoch, its top managers and its biggest stars would have had to face hostile grilling on an embarrassing question: Why did they allow a virulent and defamatory conspiracy theory about the 2020 election to spread across the network when so many of them knew it to be false?

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2020; bias; bidenvoters; biglie; coupcoverup; dominion; foxnews; jimrutenberg; katierobertson; mediabias; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyslimesliars; nytimesliars; spewbarfslimes; spewyorkslimes; spewyorktimes; thebiglie; walterdurantytimes
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To: LuxAerterna

Fox is indeed incorporated in Delaware.


61 posted on 04/19/2023 8:15:32 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto; Albion Wilde

I stand duly corrected, at least wrt Delaware having no jurisdiction. I still say though that the actions of the judge were so outrageous as to make it nearly impossible for FoxNews to defend itself.


62 posted on 04/19/2023 8:33:29 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: zeestephen

This is surprising. I stopped watching Fox News over 2 years ago exactly because they became fraud deniers. Did they switch sides again?


63 posted on 04/19/2023 8:50:14 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: zeestephen

Many of us have been saying all along that the fraud wasn’t with the machines.

It was with the “mail in ballots”.

The machines were a distraction caused by prob trump lawyers. IIRC, guilianni focused on the mail in ballots.


64 posted on 04/19/2023 8:53:08 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: zeestephen

I listened to the testimony at the state legislatures, including eye witnesses and expert witnesses showing statistically impossible patterns. How the hell does Fox feel compelled to settle in nine figures? The election was stolen. Period.


65 posted on 04/19/2023 8:56:40 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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To: TheElectionWasStolen

Lindell certainly will have his chance to present “his goods” in court.
Lindell has been delaying his date in civil court.
If he has “the goods”, why delay?


66 posted on 04/19/2023 8:58:33 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Gary from Dayton

Fraudsters and people who desperately want to believe Fraudsters do not exist make a powerful team.


67 posted on 04/19/2023 9:09:00 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: cockroach_magoo

These days if you lie it is the truth.

If you tell the truth it is a lie.

They just want mindless obedience—or else.


68 posted on 04/19/2023 9:13:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: zeestephen
Amazing to me that this settled...a party claiming defamation must show what their actual damages are and they cannot be speculative. No way did they suffer 3/4 billion in damages to Dominion's reputation. What they would have to show as actual damages is how many active sales they actually lost because of the news reporting. If they couldn't do that, then damages would be nominal - $1.00.
69 posted on 04/19/2023 9:17:22 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: zeestephen

The Cost of Airing a Truth

The NYT and other MSM cannot prove that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

Nobody will ever know how much Dominion made and how much the democrat party paid for the results.

Biden in office proves the act was done


70 posted on 04/19/2023 9:33:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: zeestephen

There’s nothing like the Walter Duranty paper wagging its fingers at some other organization.


71 posted on 04/19/2023 9:34:53 AM PDT by ClarityGuy
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

2,000 Mules


72 posted on 04/19/2023 10:17:09 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: zeestephen

The problem is that news organizations can’t be sued for misinformation or lies: they can only be sued for defamation.

Dominion had a defamation claim that Fox surrendered to. To sue The Times or MSNBC you’d have to get Sidney Powell(who both have repeatedly called a liar) to sue. You or I can’t do it for her.


73 posted on 04/19/2023 11:03:36 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: zeestephen

I know it is ridiculous that the judge just decided what was said was false. The MSM airs false narratives constantly and they are allowed to do that out of freedom of the press. That was not afforded to FNC.


74 posted on 04/19/2023 11:05:10 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Jane Long

Can FNC afford this? Will it bankrupt them?


75 posted on 04/19/2023 11:05:32 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yes so they only avoided a few hundred of millions and ended up paying basically 800 million. I don’t get it at all.


76 posted on 04/19/2023 11:06:48 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Dominion gets a stake in Fox News governance now, no? As much as 20%


77 posted on 04/19/2023 11:07:15 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Alberta's Child

In Canada it is a paper ballot hand counted. Why is that not good enough for the USA?


78 posted on 04/19/2023 11:08:41 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: mewzilla

Cancelled it the year before the election.


79 posted on 04/19/2023 11:09:18 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

There’s no “maybe” about it..........The Dims cheated. That’s a fact.


80 posted on 04/19/2023 11:09:40 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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