Fox News v. Dominion Is a Lose-Lose for First Amendment
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Just as the 2024 election contest gets underway, Fox News and election software company U.S. Dominion are heading to a jury in April over Dominion’s claims that Fox defamed it by endorsing election fraud accusations against the company on its talk shows.
On March 31, Fox News was denied summary judgment in the suit, with the court rejecting Fox’s arguments that its programming was privileged under New York defamation law. If the action doesn’t settle, Dominion will have to convince a jury that Fox aired false and defamatory statements with actual malice—meaning knowledge of or reckless disregard as to their falsity.