Fox News (FOXA) has reached a last-minute settlement in the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. Vanity Fair Correspondent and "Hoax" author, Brian Stelter, joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the saga.
Stelter told Yahoo Finance that the Supreme Court made it really difficult for cases like Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network to happen, noting that if it went to trial, a new precedent could have been set.
“Some Republicans want to loosen those laws to make it easier to sue news outlets. And yet I think if that were to happen, outlets like Fox, which are much more hyper-partisan, which engage much more in opinion and much less in gathering the news, they would be very vulnerable,” Stelter told Yahoo Finance.
Watch the full interview with Seana Smith and Dave Briggs here.
Key video moments:
00:00:27 On defamation suits
00:00:45 On Fox’s vulnerability to defamation suits
