Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements.
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Bulwark TakesSep 5, 2026
Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, NBC, CNN) confirm Fox agreed in April 2023 to pay $787.5 million to settle Dominion's defamation suit, which is 'almost a billion' in the loose sense the post used.
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… Like, there's, like, tin foil hat nonsense, which she does. This was very specific. She seemed really hooked on the election conspiracy stuff. She bought in all of it. So Trump trump's looked in on all of it. I like this inference here, is that I guess the one thing Fox that wasn't, say, TV, is after they to pay almost a billion dollars, they're like, Okay, Trump's gonna do a speech about Chinese fraud in 2020 election, and we're gonna pretend like it doesn't exist. Like, that speech doesn't exist. We're not gonna talk about it. Like, it wasn't Fox saying, like, Hey, we're gonna debunk it's like, We're just gonna, like the president gave a prime time speech in the office, and the Fox policy, we just we just have a …
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Supports. Reuters and AP report Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit, averting a trial.[1][2][3]
Supports. BBC, NPR, NBC and CNN independently confirm the $787.5 million payment and describe it as nearly $800 million.[4][5][6][7]
Context. Fox Corp. later reported a loss that Lachlan Murdoch tied to the settlement, with total costs including legal fees around $850 million.[8]
Context. The post's reference to Fox paying 'almost a billion dollars' matches reporting on the Dominion settlement, though the sources describe one settlement rather than multiple.[1][2]
Sources
8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 tier 2, 1 tier 1, 1 not rated
- 1Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claimsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 3Fox, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787 million settlement ...pbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Fox News settles Dominion defamation case for $787.5mbbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 5Fox News settles blockbuster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systemsnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 6Fox News and Dominion reach $787.5 million settlement in ...nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 7Settlement reached in Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News | CNN Businesscnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 8Fox News owner posts $50-million loss after Dominion ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
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