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The New York Times reports:
The judge in the Fox News defamation case said on Tuesday that the case was resolved, abruptly ending a long-running dispute over misinformation in the 2020 election just as a highly anticipated trial was about to begin.
It was a last-minute end to a case that began two years ago and after the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that peeled back the curtain on a media company that has long resisted outside scrutiny. Details of the settlement were not yet known.
The agreement was reached a few hours after a jury in Wilmington, Del., was selected on Tuesday, just as opening statements were expected to begin. Lawyers for both sides had been preparing to make their cases to the jury, their microphones clipped to their jacket lapels.
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Fox Corporation and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to settle a much-discussed $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit mere hours after a jury had been seated to consider the matter in Delaware’s Superior Court. https://t.co/CgNI1ldlHR
— Variety (@Variety) April 18, 2023
BREAKING: A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News, judge announces. https://t.co/m5yhsgaxb5
— ABC News (@ABC) April 18, 2023
Fox News avoided one of the highest-profile defamation trials in history Tuesday by reaching a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, the company that accused the conservative channel of smearing its reputation in the weeks after the 2020 election.
https://t.co/PU3RMzZAYO— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 18, 2023