Fox News says little on air about its $787.5 million settlement with Dominion

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(Reuters) - Fox News's $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S. election made headlines on Tuesday, except on the cable channel itself, whose mention of it was somewhat muted.

Hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who had been expected to testify in the Dominion trial, did not reference the settlement, the largest struck by an American media company, during their primetime broadcasts on Tuesday night.

Dominion had alleged that statements made on Carlson's show after the 2020 election were defamatory and that messages between Carlson and his team were proof he and his team knew claims that Denver-based Dominion's ballot-counting machines were used to manipulate the election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden were false.

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[SunSeeker]

1. It was mentioned during Cavuto's show.

As Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out tonight, Fox today for the first time talked about the case on air. They had their so-called "media reporter," Howard Kurtz, speed talk his way through a brief statement that the case had settled (he didn't say for how much). In so doing, he did mention what the case was about, namely "whether Fox was reckless in reporting former President Trump's claim that Dominion machines were flipping votes to Biden," of which he quickly addedd, "that's obviously false, those were conspiracy theories."

Granted it was at mid-afternoon at one of the lower viewership hours (Cavuto's Your World show), but getting any Fox personality to say "that's obviously false, those were conspiracy theories" is a victory for truth.

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2. This is why Fox was never going to publicly admit fault as part of a Dominion settlement

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