Fox News paid a billion dollars in a settlement.
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IHIP NewsAug 10, 2026
The claim that Fox News paid a settlement of about a billion dollars is a loose rendering of the post's 'had to pay a billion dollars'; sources show Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems in April 2023 to settle a defamation suit, so the settlement is real but the amount is roughly 790 million rather than.
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… Okay, so this is the same chicken shit stuff that Trump and that crack and lawyer and Rudy Giuliani and Fox News, they can say all the shit they want to, to crowds or on TV, but when you go into court, you find out the same way Fox News did: you can't lie to a judge, and Fox News had to pay a billion dollars. And these, these people just lie and lie, and, and they're such sore losers, and they want to rig the system even more than it's already rigged. …
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Supports. Fox and Dominion reached a $787.5 million settlement in April 2023, averting a trial in Dominion's defamation lawsuit over 2020 election claims.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Supports. Fox acknowledged 'the court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false' as part of the settlement, and its attorney said it settled to 'buy peace'.[7]
Context. The settlement amount is about half of Dominion's $1.6 billion demand, and Bloomberg Intelligence had estimated a likely settlement near half a billion dollars.[3][8][9]
Context. A book listing describes Fox as having paid 'almost a billion dollars in legal settlements', a loose figure that rounds the Dominion payment and any other settlements, and is not itself a primary record.[10][11]
Sources
11 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 tier 2, 5 not rated
- 1Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claimsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Fox News settles blockbuster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systemsnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 4Fox, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787 million settlement ...pbs.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5Fox News, Dominion settle defamation lawsuit for $787.5 millionwashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 6Settlement reached in Fox vs Dominion lawsuitcnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 7Fox settled with Dominion to 'buy peace,' attorney says as network seeks to keep internal documents under sealabcnews.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8Fox to pay $787 million to settle election lawsuit, Dominion saysspokesman.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement Doesn’t End Its 2020 Liabilitynews.bloomberglaw.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10Network of Lies - by Brian Stelter (Paperback)target.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 11Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracybookshop.org · not rated · cited for: context
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