Story is very fresh right now with several outlets blowing it up as a 'we won!' moment and AOC calling for his arrest for incitement or some shit.
He needs to do a Rubin or something similar as he was the one thing that made people even watch fox sometimes because of his anaylsis. I sense Fox's viewing figures are going to dive again...
I didn't realize that was a thing you could do. But yeah suspicious timing.
I don't really get settling that lawsuit because Fox was the first to declare Biden the winner. The lawsuit seemed to revolve not around what was said about Dominion but simply that Fox News personnel questioned the election. That was all the evidence that they brought up in the media. Obviously it never went to trial.
My guess with the lawsuit is they were told by a judge or someone in power that they were going to lose and that it would be in their best interest to settle without going to discovery in court and revealing anything more about Dominion. Otherwise, why settle? It's not about legal fees when the settlement is 3/4 billion. Hell the money you save by simply not making the payment NOW is worth it.
The straight legal answer is that it matters that the Fox News personnel didn't believe the Dominion allegations but aired them anyway. What makes proving defamation so difficult, particularly in the case of matters of public interest, is that it requires actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth. Without that evidence that the Fox News personnel didn't believe Sydney Powell and her allegations, it's a near slam dunk case for Fox to say they were just covering all sides.
They already had discovery -- that's where the internal communications from Fox News personnel were produced. Having reviewed discovery from Dominion, the judge stated it "is crystal clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true." It's very possible they still win. But, it would have been a Delaware jury and a giant spectacle with their stars being brought in to testify. It also works for their general transition from Trump.
What kind of internal communications?
E-mails and text messages.
Here is Dominion's brief in support of their motion for summary judgment that includes the communications they were relying on (although not the exhibits themselves):
https://archive.is/XcO64
I don't know if that archive link actually lets you go through the PDF, but here is the direct link: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-case/dca5e3880422426f/full.pdf
Well that's really damning, but doesn't it mean the Fox execs pushed him to read his stuff about it while making his meme faces?
Or did he find out only later?
what did they say about Dominion? Nobody talked about that. They just kept ragging on Tucker for being two faced.
It is useful to the powers to have a high dollar and high visibility settlement from a media organization to the corrupt voting machine fraudsters, because they can point to it as a counter to claims of fraud.
"Why would fox settle if it was true?"
Why, would big media ever play fucking games around the truth? Would big media not lie if it was convenient for their masters?
But the soy goblins that believe leftist media and fox are actually enemies will screech, point at this and slam their hands over their ears any time the subject is brought up for the next five decades until we're all dead.
The settlement is a psyop.