Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef

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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 34 pts · 363d (2 replies)

Cost of doing business.

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 363d

Do we know what the terms are? There's sometimes air time etc exchanged.

My guess though is that unlike fox, they managed to get hosts who were not divas about it in a bunch of unencrypted text messages so lawyers could explain in court the hosts are all just dumb. They could even say they sourced Fox News.

If the last case is true, they got lucky by being smaller and second, because the fox settlement was massive.

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d

Laundering maybe?

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 363d

Literally chump change.

octopus_ink@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 363d

Wonderful ROI for Trump and Putin though.

Juice@midwest.social · 11 pts · 363d (1 reply)

Their market cap is 20B, I wonder if it will even sting

frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d

Narrator: it didn't

Hobbes@startrek.website · 7 pts · 363d

That's all? License for anyone to do this in the future.

DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 363d

But Putin said the election was rigged