Skylar
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Settlement isn’t uncommon. It doesn’t always mean what the liberals assume it means in this case.
However, it does seem likely that Fox News felt more of a need to settle than Dominion did. Therefore, it seems probable that Fox News took a fairly big financial hit.
Actually, yeah....it does. The court found that Fox made false statements about Dominion and granted summary judgment in favor of Dominion on the element of falsity.
Fox in its statement about the settlement acknowledged that the judge was correct about Fox making false statements about Dominion. Fox admitted it lied.
And while settlements aren't uncommon, this is unprecedented. This is the largest public defamation settlement in the history of the United States. This settlement is 10 times the value of Dominion. This was a massive, massive loss for Fox in so many ways.
Fox was beyond fucked. The judge caught them *repeatedly* lying about evidence in discovery. It was so bad that the judge himself had initiated an investigation. The judge offered summary judgment on falsity. And an ex-producer for Fox had admitted that she was compelled by Fox to lie. And she proved that Fox withheld evidence by producing recordings about Dominion that Fox had claimed didn't exist.
Fox's credibility was dogshit going into the trial because they had lied over and over. And been caught doing so.
And even after this settlement, Fox is still fucked.
There's still the $2.7 BILLION lawsuit from Smartmatic. A suit made SO much easier for Smartmatic by both Fox's settlement, the juicy discovery that Fox has already provided (and is now on record), the summary judgment on falsity that was already found against Fox, and Fox admitting it lied.