Fox Pays Dominion $787.5 Million in Historic Settlement But Won't Apologize for Election Lies – Democracy Now!

0:05 – We turn now to look at the historic settlement reached this week to end Dominion voting systems lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.

On Tuesday, shortly after a jury was picked for the trial, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion a three-quarters of a billion dollars – that's 787.5 million dollars – to settle the lawsuit. As part of the deal, Fox was not required to apologize for airing lies about Dominion. It's believed to be the largest media defamation settlement in history.

7:35 – If they really want their reputation back, or to sort of undo it, or even just undo some of that damage, the only way for that to happen is actually for Fox news to tell their audience that they misinformed them and that they did it knowingly. 

Obviously, that will never happen and that's in part why the settlement was so high. Because for Fox News, they were willing to pay more money, just to avoid the possibility that their audience would find out. That their network was knowingly misinforming them. And worse for Fox that they didn't actually believe that the election was stolen. That's the very thing that started all of this, in the first place. Their audience would turn against them for that. That’s why they started to tell these tall tales because they were afraid that their audience was mad at them…


10:55 – What that audio reveals is that that's not neutral reporting that they were actually in cahoots that not that the Trump people also didn't believe the things that they were saying but were saying it because it was a way to attack and undermine the legitimacy the election and try to keep themselves in power and that they needed places like Fox News to take those deceptions to launder them and add some validity to it.


"The only way for that to happen is actually for Fox news to tell their audience that they misinformed them and that they did it knowingly. Obviously, that will never happen and that's in part why the settlement was so high. Because for Fox News, they were willing to pay more money, just to avoid the possibility that their audience would find out."
— Angelo Carusone, Media Matters

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