A $787.5 million settlement and embarrassing disclosures: Costs of airing a lie

But the $787.5 million settlement agreement — among the largest defamation settlements in history — and Fox’s courthouse statement recognising that the court had found “certain claims about Dominion” aired on its programming “to be false” — at the very least amount to a rare, high-profile acknowledgment of informational wrongdoing by a powerhouse in conservative media and America’s most popular cable network.