Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement

Not really a shocker that they settled given all the embarrassing texts&#x2F;emails showing the blatant lies Fox execs and media figureheads were engaging in. Just surprising that it took them this long—the start of the trial—to settle.<p>Would be nice if the Fox News crowd would read some of those messages to wake up from all the manipulation.

&gt; &quot;This settlement reflects FOX&#x27;s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.&quot;<p>What a world it is, that high journalistic standards can end in a $787m payout.

Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.

This whole affair is an incredibly frustrating example of why society is breaking down. There are legitimate concerns with both security and reliability with these voting machines... But no, Fox had to fold it into their culture war fight and took things too far. Now, Dominion is vindicated and I&#x27;m happy to bet good dollars to donuts that any legitimate criticism or questions raised about the fidelity of their machines will be countered with culture-war ad hominem attack

Its interesting that the only people that seem to be able to hold corporate media to account are other corporations with different interests.<p>edit: I suppose the News international phone hacking scandal was journalists&#x2F;individuals&#x2F;government holding Murdoch to account <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;News_International_phone_hacking_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;News_International_phone_hacki...</a> ... but that was in the UK.

Second settlement this week. There was this other conspiracy theory:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;business&#x2F;fox-news-venezuela-dominion.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;business&#x2F;fox-news-venezue...</a><p>Of course, these sort of things have happened before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;938545344&#x2F;fox-news-settles-with-seth-richs-parents-for-false-story-claiming-clinton-leaks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;938545344&#x2F;fox-news-settles-wi...</a>

I&#x27;m surprised Dominion settled. It had seemed as though Dominion wanted a public apology or a public victory to support their reputation.

Dominion Voting System&#x27;s annual turnover&#x2F;revenue is approx $25M per year and they have 142 employees. So this is like 30 years of revenue for them.<p>One of Dominions ex-directors also has ongoing lawsuits against various Trump people -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dominion_Voting_Systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dominion_Voting_Systems</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cstrial.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;c-s-earns-victory-for-former-dominion-voting-systems-employee-dr-eric-coomer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cstrial.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;c-s-earns-victory-for-former-do...</a>

Very small fine for genuinely trying to subvert democracy &amp; ruin faith in fair elections in the country with the largest military in the world.

Coming up on Fox, the Smartmatic trial that will be for twice the settlement.

Those text messages were enlightening. I wonder how many people will see this and take it into consideration next time they view a segment on fox.

Assuming Fox hosts mentioned the word &quot;Dominion&quot; in an accusation an average of, say, 50 times a day for two years, the cost to Fox per utterance was on the order of $787,500,000 ÷ (50×365×2) = ~$22,000 per utterance. Those lies sure were expensive!<p>Let&#x27;s hope this will induce Fox hosts to be a <i>wee bit</i> more careful about keeping facts straight going forward.

If the settlement doesn’t include every fox host that lied spending every show for a week stating the knowingly lied, and that their reason was ratings, I don’t see how this results in accountability, and I don’t see how this won’t happen again repeatedly while the GOP continues to undermine the judiciary.

I appreciate that we are starting to see a bit of accountability brought to these media organizations. We saw it a few years ago with CNN and the Convington Catholic kid and now this.<p>Just two small drops in a giant ocean of garbage but it is something.

This is hacker news, but I find it appalling that there&#x27;s surprisingly less noise about the organized effort to subvert democracy overnight. If Trump had succeeded, do you really think there&#x27;d be any meaningful elections in the future? My hope is the most hackers are outraged but don&#x27;t comment here.

I am not sure why Fox would have settled. Outside of a few statements by Dobbs, it seems like the <i>interviewees</i> were the ones who defamed Dominion, not Fox News employees -- based on the lawsuit filed by Dominion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;media&#x2F;dominion-fox-news-allegations&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;media&#x2F;dominion-fox-news-alleg...</a>

Geez, and Trump only made $250M off the Big Lie.<p>Sad.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;us-politics&#x2F;trump-jan-6-committee-fundraising-b2100072.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;us-politic...</a>

I&#x27;m not into using the voting machines of a company that confronts rhetoric and criticism with massive lawsuits.<p>No one should trust the literal mechanical linchpin of democracy to a company that uses lawfare instead of its words.