The AP article linked to the story is a politically-biased piece of crap. Apparently there's zero integrity over there at AP. They throw the term conspiracy theory around ever other sentence. Notice how they made sure to remind us how Fox paid a settlement to Dominion:
FROM THE AP ARTICLE: Dominion filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming its election equipment for Trump’s 2020 loss. Fox News settled the most prominent of these cases for $787 million last year.
Why did Fox settle so quickly? The only reason I can think of is Fox is cooperating with the election interference. Fox was used as an example of what will happen to anyone who questions the election results. It appears they reported on election fraud with the intent of being sued. Then settled the lawsuit quickly. This is meant to dissuade anyone else who might publicly question the election.
I don't know exactly what they did, but lawsuits can be strung out for years. I would guess there would have been a lot of legal avenues they could have explored to string it out. Seems like they settled a lot sooner than they needed to, which doesn't make sense, nor does it fit the normal behavior of a company facing a lawsuit.
The AP article linked to the story is a politically-biased piece of crap. Apparently there's zero integrity over there at AP. They throw the term conspiracy theory around ever other sentence. Notice how they made sure to remind us how Fox paid a settlement to Dominion:
https://apnews.com/article/voting-machines-dominion-defamation-68d3f3a4e840ccb7a81d72837c4f6b3e
FROM THE AP ARTICLE: Dominion filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming its election equipment for Trump’s 2020 loss. Fox News settled the most prominent of these cases for $787 million last year.
Why did Fox settle so quickly? The only reason I can think of is Fox is cooperating with the election interference. Fox was used as an example of what will happen to anyone who questions the election results. It appears they reported on election fraud with the intent of being sued. Then settled the lawsuit quickly. This is meant to dissuade anyone else who might publicly question the election.
Did Fox ever appeal?
I don't know exactly what they did, but lawsuits can be strung out for years. I would guess there would have been a lot of legal avenues they could have explored to string it out. Seems like they settled a lot sooner than they needed to, which doesn't make sense, nor does it fit the normal behavior of a company facing a lawsuit.