Newsday - Fox News ‘avoids exposure’ by settling defamation case - BBC Sounds

Fox News has settled a defamation case brought against it by the voting machine company, Dominion, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.

The broadcaster will pay Dominion $787.5 million, about half of the $1.6bn initially sought.

Dominion had alleged Fox knowingly spread false claims that the last election was rigged against Donald Trump, in the process damaging its business.

Erin Mulvaney is a legal affairs reporter with The Wall Street Journal and was in the courtroom in Delaware. She told Newsday: “They essentially were limiting exposure and not dragging out a big public airing of these allegations.”