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Sept. 16, 2019, file photo, a Dominion Voting Systems voting machine is seen in Atlanta. Dominion Voting Systems is filing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company rigged the 2020 election. The Associated Press AP Photo/John Bazemore

Sept. 16, 2019, file photo, a Dominion Voting Systems voting machine is seen in Atlanta. Dominion Voting Systems is filing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company rigged the 2020 election. The Associated Press AP Photo/John Bazemore

Dominion’s Lawsuit Won’t Break Fox News – But it Opens the Door to Other Financial Troubles

Subbu Vincent, director, journalism and media ethics, quoted by The Wrap.

Lawsuits by shareholders and demands from their distribution market could add to the networks financial pain.

Dominion has a strong case against Fox because it has developed “multiple arguments around the actual malice standard,” Santa Clara University Journalism and Media Ethics program director Subramaniam Vincent told TheWrap.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas have signaled that they “would like to revisit [the actual malice standard] to reduce immunity for the news media,” said Vincent — and the Dominion case would give them just such an opportunity.

 

Subbu Vincent, director, journalism and media ethics, quoted by The Wrap.

 

Mar 3, 2023
Ethics
media,journalism

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