Fox News reaches $787-million settlement in Dominion defamation suit

Tailed by a lone demonstrator, the legal team representing Fox News arrives at the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center where Fox News was being sued by Dominion Voting Systems.

Los Angeles Times
Fox News avoided one of the highest-profile defamation trials in history Tuesday by reaching a $787.5-million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, the company that accused the conservative channel of smearing its reputation in the weeks after the 2020 election.

The extraordinary settlement — one of the largest financial settlements in a defamation case — came on the same day the trial began in Delaware Superior Court.

The jury would have determined whether Fox News acted with malice by deliberately airing false statements about the voting machine maker. Dominion was seeking $1.6 billion in damages.

In addition to the monetary damages, the network in a statement also conceded that it had aired falsehoods about the Denver-based company. MORE