WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787 million settlement Tuesday in the voting machine company's defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election.
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Dominion Voting Systems' attorneys leave the New Castle County Courthouse on Tuesday in Wilmington, Del., after the defamation lawsuit by Dominion against Fox News was settled just as the jury trial was set to begin.
Attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems speak at a news conference Tuesday outside New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del.
Fox News attorney Daniel Webb walks from the New Castle County Courthouse on Tuesday in Wilmington, Del.
World reacts to US 2020 presidential election
A selection of the British national newspapers on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, showing their front page reactions to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris winning in the US election, in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Men erect flags on top of a building as residents begin celebrations in the ancestral home of Joe Biden in anticipation of the results of the US election, in Ballina, Ireland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Biden was elected as the 46th president of the United States, defeating President Donald Trump in an election that played out against the backdrop of a pandemic, its economic fallout and a national reckoning on racism. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
Catherine Hallahan waits for the celebrations to start in Ballina, North West of Ireland Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Ballina is the ancestral home of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
A passerby takes a selfie with an extra newspaper reporting on President-elect Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election, in Tokyo Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. The headline reads: "Mr. Biden Assured to win."(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
U.S. flag placed on a balcony of an apartment is hung upside-down, a sign of distress, in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Votes in the U.S. presidential election between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were still being counted. (AP Photo/Paul White)
A worker puts up an advertising billboard for a recruiting company, featuring what resembles US President Donald Trump, in Zagreb, Croatia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
A local vendor sells flowers in front of a billboard featuring U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the hometown of Harris' maternal grandfather, in Thulasendrapuram, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up Sunday morning to the news of her making history. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Residents read a copy of their local paper in the town of Ballina, North West of Ireland, the ancestral home of President elect Joe Biden, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Biden was elected as the 46th president of the United States, defeating President Donald Trump in an election that played out against the backdrop of a pandemic, its economic fallout and a national reckoning on racism. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Marianne Hoenow from Connecticut in the US celebrates the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in front of the Brandenbug Gate next to the United States Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by the historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Indian art teacher Sagar Kambli makes paintings of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris outside his art school, which remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Malayalam language newspapers that have as the main front page news, President-elect Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election are displayed for sale between bottles of candies at a roadside shop in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, Nov.8, 2020. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)
A man carries his foods past photos of Joe Biden on display at a restaurant where he visited in 2011 as U.S. vice president, in Beijing, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. World leaders congratulated U.S. President-elect Biden on his victory, cheering it as an opportunity to fortify global democracy and celebrating the significance of Americans having their first female vice president. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A screen shows a broadcast of President-elect Joe Biden speaking Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, at the Shinjuku shopping district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
An employee of Yomiuri newspaper distributes passersby the extra newspaper reporting on President-elect Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election, in Tokyo Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. The headline reads: "Mr. Biden assured of win." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
An elderly villager holds a placard of U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during celebrations for her victory in Painganadu a neighboring village of Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris' maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Waking up to the news of Kamala Harris' election as Joe Biden's running mate, overjoyed people in her Indian grandfather's hometown set off firecrackers, carried her placards and offering prayers. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Newspaper vendor Angelo Gallicchio shows daily paper reporting on President-elect Joe Biden's win in the U.S. presidential election, in his kiosk in central Rome, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
TV screens show President-elect Joe Biden during a news program at Yongsan Electronic store in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A man reads newspaper headlines on a street of Harare, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagawa sent a congratulatory message to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who won the U.S. presidential election by beating incumbent Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A man reads a newspapers reacting to the news of U.S President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A man, wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, crosses a road while carrying a Spanish newspaper reporting on President-elect Joe Biden winning the US presidential election, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
