Fox News Settles Defamation Case With Venezuelan Businessman

In that trial, which is expected to begin on April 17, a jury will weigh whether Fox spread false claims about Dominion while knowing that the claims were untrue, and it will determine any damages.

“Dominion’s lawsuit is a political crusade in search of a financial windfall,” the Fox spokesperson said.

In the case of the Venezuelan businessman, Majed Khalil, Mr. Dobbs and Sidney Powell, a regular guest on Fox News, said on the air and in related Twitter posts that Dominion was using software to flip votes from Mr. Trump to Joseph R. Biden Jr., or to add votes for Mr. Biden.

One of the tweets falsely said Mr. Khalil was “the effective ‘COO’ of the election project.” In an earlier complaint, Mr. Khalil said neither Fox News nor Mr. Dobbs had reached out to him for comment.

Fox Business canceled Mr. Dobbs’s weekday show in February 2021.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/fox-news-venezuela-dominion.html