Under the terms of the settlement, Fox News will neither have to apologize for or admit to spreading falsehoods on network programming, but experts say this is a “wake-up call' for broadcasters when it comes to knowingly “broadcasting…false information.”
Fox News averted a potentially humiliating defamation trial after a last-minute settlement Tuesday, but it took a reputational beating that observers said was unlikely to spur the influential broadcaster to tame its "disinformation engine."
"This can be seen as a wake-up call for live broadcasters and a reminder that there really is a difference between false factual statements, and knowingly broadcasting such false information, and protected speech," Roy Gutterman, a Syracuse University professor, told AFP. "A loss -- and the trial process itself -- would have been much worse for Fox," John Culhane, a professor at Delaware Law School at Widener University, told AFP.
Under the terms of the settlement, the broadcaster will neither have to apologize for or admit to spreading falsehoods on network programming, according to US media. "It may bring about some cooling off, but I fear it will be in full gear" in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election.Trump –- whose false claim that the previous election was stolen from him incited a violent mob to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 -– is running for president for a third time and remains a front-runner for the Republican nomination.It faces another $2.
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