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You said it is the largest the largest publicly known defamation settlement ever by us media company crazy. the network reaching a last minute settlement deal with dominion voting systems for more than $787 million.10. times evaluation of the company in 2018. it happened right before the trial was set to begin. dominions lawyers say it is a victory for truth and democracy. watch this the truth matters. flies have consequences. dominion needed justice. we got into this case with two goals, accoun...

Computer, no access to the internet things of this nature. so once again once this detention hearing gets under the way at 11 oclock here. much for the judge here to consider kate. alright much to happen in the just a couple hours ahead. jason carroll is outside the courthouse in boston for us, jason. thank you so much. john in boston. alright this morning . what happens after agreeing to pay $787 million for broadcasting lies fox forced into one of the biggest defamation payout ever for lies ab...

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Legal team were tight—lipped but issued a written statement stating that the settlement reflected its continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. despite putting this case behind them, foxs legal woes are not over and the network must defend itself in a 2.7 billion dollar meth —— defamation case brought by another election technology company. 0ne case brought by another election technology company. one thing is certain, todays outcome says fox news from airing dirty linen i...

From smartmatic. what happens there? given the settlement we just saw with dominion. well remember, even before we got to the settlement, john there were months of discovery where we were seeing emails and depositions from fox personnel. that hasnt happened yet in this smartmatic case, and youre going to see that again, assuming that this goes to trial proceeds for several more months , and so you will see more depositions from fox leadership , probably more emails and, frankly, some of the same...

The significance of this settlement >> chris, i guess there are two significant things coming out of the settlement first, defamation cases are hard to win im not a lawyer but i used to be a spokesperson for lawyers in my consulting days one of the persons i worked for, one of the things they did, they represented corporations and entities and always talk about defamation cases, people can bring themmer hardest thing to win. theres no there there and you can hold a large entity account ability f...

Because now there will not be days upon days of embarrassing news coverage and revelations. additionally, a lot of the material thats already been fined in court but was redacted will now stay secret forever. so yes, we did see many embarrassing e—mails and text messages revealed from inside box, but that were also hundreds of pages which will now stay redacted forever. essentially, fox has been able to keep some of its secrets by paying the settlement and trying to move forward. just paying t...

Acknowledge the courts rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards really. it might reflect their continued commitment to pay outs , and there might have to be more. they face another even bigger lawsuit. smartmatic is seeking $2.7 billion in damages from fox and other defendants for the same type of lies at the heart of the dominion case with me now is former federal prosecutor and cnn legal...

Likelihood that they could be sued by another party in the future. you know, i think a number of people are a number of commentators have sort of cast doubt on the settlement that on account of the fact that they havent apologized. it hasnt hurt them. but $707 million is a lot of money, both for dominion. and even if it doesnt ruin fox is a corporation. its a huge disincentive. to engage in the same conduct again in the future. you mentioned the apology. they dont have to apologize, apparently o...

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