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Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the U.S. for nearly three years

"This litigation creates accountability and makes clear that there are steep costs to recklessly or intentionally spreading fiction for political or personal profit.”

Lawyer: ‘Lies like these, that inflict serious harms on our democracy, have been costless’

Lawyer: ‘Lies like these, that inflict serious harms on our democracy, have been costless’

DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three years. Several similar lawsuits are teed up against those […]

Lawyer: ‘Lies like these, that inflict serious harms on our democracy, have been costless’

Lawyer: ‘Lies like these, that inflict serious harms on our democracy, have been costless’

Fox News nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine companys defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three years.

 

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for breaking up large tech companies at a private conservative retreat in 2021, ProPublica reported.