The Fox News settlement.
Episode description
The Fox-Dominion settlement. On Tuesday, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle their defamation lawsuit and avoid a trial, marking the largest ever defamation settlement in U.S. history. The voting machine company had sued Fox News for $1.6 billion, arguing that Fox damaged its reputation by airing libelous theories that its equipment had switched votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
You can read today's podcast here, our previous coverage on this topic here and here, our Blindpsot Report here, today’s “Under the Radar” story here, and today’s “Have a nice day” story here.
Today’s clickables: Quick hits (1:33), Today’s story (3:17), Left’s take (6:32), Right’s take (10:16), Isaac’s take (14:12), Listener question (17:58), Blindspot Report (20:27) Under the Radar (21:01), Numbers (21:43), Have a nice day (22:33)
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