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Executives of Dominion Voting Systems have been talking to Axios about the $787.5m settlement it won from Fox News over lies about the 2020 election pushed by on-air celebrities.
Tucker Carlson, one of the most vocal exponents of Donald Trump’s big lie of a stolen election, became a high-profile casualty of the fallout when he was fired last week, but Dominion says his dismissal wasn’t a condition of the settlement.
These results are much more profound than some disingenuous apology or forced statement that would not have any credibility, or would have been disingenuous from actors that have had a track record for making statements that are disingenuous.
He knew the truth and yet his enormous asset, Fox News, kept broadcasting the lies. The Tucker Carlson texts where it took him no time at all to figure out that the software stuff was absurd.
It was obvious to everybody that this was crazy and we expected to see internal acknowledgment that this was crazy and false. And that’s what we ended up seeing in the end.
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