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06/05/202311/07/2024

Settlement reached in Fox vs Dominion lawsuit

Justin Nelson, Dominion's lead counsel, appears on CNN.
Justin Nelson, Dominion’s lead counsel, appears on CNN. (CNN)

Dominion Voting Systems had two goals in its defamation case against Fox News — accountability and “trying to make Dominion whole,” said Justin Nelson, the lead counsel election technology company.

Both were accomplished in this settlement, he told CNN on Tuesday.

The payment of more than $787 million by Fox News to Dominion and the network’s statement acknowledging that its coverage of the 2020 election was false was “a strong message of accountability” and an important victory for the employees of his client’s company.

“This is really the first time that anyone has paid a price for telling the lies of the 2020 election and we’re very proud about that,” he said.

While the settlement does not stipulate that Fox’s anchors must admit the lies on air, Nelson said it was a consequential outcome for the network.

The texts and emails that emerged during the litigation process from inside the Fox network were valuable, he said. “And what today has shown is that you have to pay a price if you’re telling lies.”

Previous court filings revealed messages that showed that the most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air.

“It’s a lot of what we teach our kids, which is that the truth does indeed matter, and if you are lying, eventually there’s going to be consequences to that,” Nelson said.

He said the settlement with Fox sends a “strong message” to other right-wing outlets in which Dominion has ongoing legal disputes.

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