Everything you need to know about Dominion v Fox News

Michal Lewis Contributor

Dominion Voting System reached a last-minute $787.5 million settlement for its defamation lawsuit against Fox News on the 19th of April 2023.

The voting machine company was suing the news network for $1.6 billion due to defamatory comments tying the company to election fraud over the 2020 presidential election. These claims by Dominion were after the news network had Trump’s associates and Fox News hosts accusing Dominion’s voting machines of rigging the election result in favour of Joe Biden, even though there was no evidence to back their claims.

For Dominion to win the case, they had to prove that the publisher had “actual malice” to harm the company. To do this, text messages and emails from journalists and hosts at Fox News were assembled that showed that many of them knew that the claims were false