Fox vs Dominion

[Tgo01]

You really think there is an insurance that protects you when you slander or lie? Seriously?

https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/l...ness-insurance

General liability insurance Any business
This coverage protects against financial loss as the result of bodily injury, property damage, medical expenses, libel, slander, defending lawsuits, and settlement bonds or judgments.

https://www.insureon.com/insurance-glossary/slander

If someone sues your business for libel or slander, the defamation insurance included in this insurance policy would help pay your legal defense costs, including a settlement or judgment.

Cry more. You can insure for just about anything these days.

Between tax write offs and insurance Fox will probably end up paying maybe half of this settlement, if that much.

[Parkbandit]

You really think there is an insurance that protects you when you slander or lie? Seriously?

There is insurance for anything. I would imagine a news channel would have libel and slander in their liability insurance.

Fox lost, and no matter how you want to spin it, doesn’t change the fact they had to settle, and lost 787mln dollars.

787 million is quite a lot of money.. to everyday folks.

Fox News is a multi-billion dollar corporation.. it's a speed bump to them.

[Seran]

Fox News most certainly has general liability insurance, though it's a stretch to assume it'll claim the settlement against it, considering the willful acts exception. The testimony of Fox's hosts and executives moving forward with libelous statements despite knowing they're false falls right into a willful acts of intentional harm exception.

We'll know soon either way, Fox News is required to disclose the settlement and financial impact via an SEC filing.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

It's a good thing that journalist/news agencies are held accountable when they lie. Frankly I'd hope more news agencies are sued for blatant lies like this and the other obvious lies, if only to get them in line and have SOME accountability. Other narratives that need to be sued would be all the January 6th lies from all the news agencies (like Fox just paid out). Lying to the American people under the guise of news but when it's really opinion needs to be punished. "Mostly peaceful" rioting, sue them. "Insurrection", sue them. Changing definitions of recession, sue them. Lies about disasters like in East Palestine, sue them. Hero of Kenosha, sue them. Sandman, sue them. Adam Schiff and Swalwell lies about collusion with Russia, sue them. Russia Dossier, sue them (imagine how many congress people would go bankrupt!). Sue them all.

Let's all just get litigious until these agencies start telling the truth.

I'm kidding mostly though. I'd rather we just put them out of business or vote them out of congress. But because the America public are team sports voters, it'll never happen. The left and the right love to be divided instead of coming together in compromise, so it'll never go away. Everyone will write books and get rich though.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

The testimony of Fox's hosts and executives moving forward with libelous statements despite knowing they're false falls right into a willful acts of intentional harm exception.

What testimony?

[Methais]

Fox News knew from the get go it is exploitation of Trump's spurious claims and it is anchors spreading those lies would get it in trouble...

How did it feel to watching your hero is rebuke everything they say on air in text messages amongst themselves?

This is what you sound like. Because you're stupid.

[Methais]

There's quite a bit of copium being huffed right now trying to spin that 800m payout to Dominion as an example of the benevolence of Fox News. As if they didn't spend the better part of a year trying to deny any wrongdoing or financial culpability.

Tgo: I don't watch or give a fuck about Fox News

Seran: THAT'S QUITE A BIT OF COPIUM!!!!!!


Also Seran:

There's quite a bit of copium being huffed right now

Keep smoking that copium though.

Am I going to scroll down some more and see you tell someone to keep snorting hopium because you keep repeating words you hear other people say while having no idea what anything you say means?


On topic: This is already common knowledge, but the only person in this thread who watches or gives a shit about Fox News is you.

[Seran]

What testimony?

You obviously haven't been following the pre-trial news otherwise you'd have known about the interrogatories and not looked so dumb.

[Parkbandit]

You obviously haven't been following the pre-trial news otherwise you'd have known about the interrogatories and not looked so dumb.

Most people aren't as heavily invested into Fox News everysingleday like you.

[Methais]

You obviously haven't been following the pre-trial news otherwise you'd have known about the interrogatories and not looked so dumb.

How many hours on an average day do you spend watching or reading Fox News?