# What are these Dominion Voting Machines? (Fox News and Dominion have settled for $787.5 million)

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**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-dominion-voting-machines-fox-news-and-dominion-have-settled-for-787-5-million/926845 "2020-11-30T18:43:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-dominion-voting-machines-fox-news-and-dominion-have-settled-for-787-5-million/926845/131 "2023-04-19T19:25:23Z")

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I don’t think Dominion is done with their efforts to stop this smear against their company. A byproduct of this is that Fox will be outed somewhat as the propaganda network they are. I wish them every success in their battles!

But as was well noted by @Princhester in another thread in the post below, fixing this Fox problem is not the responsibility of Dominion.

> [@Fox News/Dominion case has been settled - breaking news](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-dominion-case-has-been-settled-breaking-news/982866/21):
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> Strong as Dominion’s case may have been I doubt it was watertight. There was a legally high bar for them to jump, and Fox were not without any form of defence - Fox argued that they could honestly report that the Trump camp was making allegations of election fraud involving Dominion, and that was newsworthy in itself, even if what the Trump camp were saying was false. I’m not saying that is right or that it is a defence that would have been successful - but it created a risk that Dominion prob…

We have a hell of a fight on our hands. I’d like to see more Americans wake up to the deleterious effect of propaganda on our population from _all_ sources – and there are a lot. Fox is only one of those. If we can’t recognize and overcome this, I fear we are lost as a nation. But this isn’t the thread for the discussion. I may start another when I have time.

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