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Fox Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Settlement Talks

A long-awaited defamation case being brought by a voting technology firm against Fox News has been delayed by a day and is now due to start on Tuesday.
Fox Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Settlement Talks (Photo by: ABC 7News)

A long-awaited defamation case being brought by a voting technology firm against Fox News has been delayed by a day and is now due to start on Tuesday.

A long-awaited defamation case being brought by a voting technology firm against Fox News has been delayed by a day and is now due to start on Tuesday.

Fox Defamation Trial Delayed Amid Settlement Talks (Photo by: Newstalk ZB)

Fox’s Defamation Trial Delayed

The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. He did not cite a reason.

The trial, which has drawn international interest, had been scheduled to start Monday morning with jury selection and opening statements.

The case centers on whether Fox defamed Dominion Voting Systems by spreading false claims that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election to prevent former President Donald Trump’s reelection. Records produced as part of the lawsuit show that many of the network’s hosts and executives didn’t believe the allegations but aired them, anyway.

Claire Bischoff, a Dominion spokesperson, said the company would have no comment on the trial delay. Representatives for Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., the entities Dominion is suing, did not immediately return requests for comment. In his statement, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said only that the trial, including jury selection, would be continued until Tuesday and that he would announce the delay in court on Monday.

That’s when Fox News executives and the network’s star hosts were scheduled to begin answering for their role in spreading doubt about the 2020 presidential election and creating the gaping wound that remains in America’s democracy.

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