Dominion's case survived Fox's motion for summary judgment and it's going to trial.
I've not read the ruling, it's 130 pages long, and nobody's paying me to do shit like that. The judge ruled that the statements made by Fox News were false, that Fox News knew they were false, and so this case leaps over the bar set by New York Times v. Sullivan.
Now comes the 640 million dollar question: Will Fox try to settle this or are they going to go to trial? Going to trial would mean that there would be a parade of Fox News people, including their star hosts, having to explain why they backed claims of election fraud that they knew were baseless, why they had on GTrumpist guests that they knew were lunatics and so on. It may be worth several hundred million to Fox to get this case put under wraps.
On the other hand, for Dominion, having this matter aired out in a courtroom, even if they're not awarded all that much, may be what they want. Demonstrating to the world that Fox News (and, by analogy, the other right-wing media outlets) is in the propaganda business may be their goal.
Stay tuned, sports fans.
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My calls for Fox to be "9/11"ed ~ imploded into its' footprint, Little Eichmenn inside ~ are of course metaphorical ...
It would seem suicidal for Fox to let this go to trial. There is so much evidence that everyone knew it was a lie. I wonder how much a settlement will actually hurt them, not much likely. It would be nice if they were required to show a chyron declaring "We Lie", but I am not holding my breath for that kind of accountability.
w3ski
Looks like the hens may eat the Fox this time.
And yet, there are those that STILL make the “there was fraud and you know it” claim. Even though they can’t cite any evidence. Even though it has been proven to be a lie. Some people just live in a state of denial.
Dale
It's hard, Dale, for people to admit that they have been snookered. It's easier to cling to the lie, that there's a global conspiracy led by Bill Gates and George Soros and only some clown who goes by "Q" knows the real truth.
It can really cross the line into lunacy.
Pretty sure Smartmatic can use the Dominion discovery in its own lawsuit against Fox. Fox normal legal mode is to get a sealed settlement with the plaintiff(s). Dominion and Smartmatic aren’t going away like that - Rule #2 by (@jonrog1): A fine is a price. Those two companies want Fox to be publicly pilloried on top of whatever monetary damages it is ordered to pay. The discovery showed the division between what Fox aired and what the company knew. It will be up to the jurors whether that gap is wide enough for the legal term ’malice’.
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