Fox News: the high price of peddling lies

Murdoch is ‘unlikely to change his ways’ despite record settlement

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson has been shown the door at the network
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It came as a disappointment to those awaiting a “blockbuster courtroom drama”, said Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. In a last-minute deal last week, Fox News paid out a record $787.5m to settle a defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

America’s most watched cable news channel had repeatedly aired false claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 election to steal victory from Donald Trump.

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