Davida Brook, the lead lawyer for Dominion Voting Techniques, has mentioned a last-minute settlement from Fox Information “introduced peace”.
“When an organization like Fox apologises, it apologises with cash,” she informed the BBC’s US accomplice CBS. “$787 million, we figured, spoke volumes.”
The community agreed to pay $787.5m (£634m) – about half of the $1.6bn initially sought by Dominion – over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion argued its enterprise was harmed by Fox spreading false claims the vote had been rigged towards Donald Trump.
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