Fox News Settlement With Dominion Does Not Require On-Air Retraction Or Apology
18.04.2023 - 22:51
/ deadline.com
Fox News’s $787.5 billion settlement with Dominion Voting Systems does not require that the network do an on-air a retraction or apology, sources confirmed.
In talking to reporters afterward, attorneys for Dominion suggested that the settlement sum and the proceedings up to this point held the network accountable for amplifying false allegations that the election software company was involved in rigging the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.
“We achieved our goals. Our goals were accountability, and our goals were to make right by our client,” Justin Nelson, the lead attorney for Dominion, told Deadline. “And I think we hit a home run on both of those. We’re very proud of what we have done in this case, and I think that what we have done is for the first time to have accountability for the lies of the 2020 election.”
Fox did issue a statement shortly after the settlement was announced, but it did not include an apology or directly retract what was said on air following the election. “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false,” the statement read. Judge Eric Davis issued a summary judgment opinion last month ruling that the 20 statements at issue in the case were false.
But Nelson said, “I think what we’re after was accountability. And I think it really showed today by paying more than three quarters of a billion dollars. Lies do have consequences. They also do acknowledge that summary judgment opinion called them lies.”
“From our perspective, what we were after is what we achieved.”
The settlement speculation started on Sunday, when Davis delayed the start of the trial 24 hours to today. Fox entered a filing in the court that argued that Dominion was significantly
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