Dominion v. Fox News: A Defamation Trial Echoing Watergate.

Dominion, the voting machine manufacturer, is suing Fox News for knowingly spreading disinformation about its products after the 2020 election to appease an audience hungry for conspiracy theories. While it has already been decided that Fox's allegations about Dominion were false, Dominion must now prove that Fox's key decision-makers had knowledge that those statements were false. The case is a tough legal challenge as Dominion has to show "actual malice" to win a defamation case. The case is notable for the juicy pre-trial discovery unearthing caches of messages among Fox employees, which shows that many of them had their doubts about what their network was peddling. Reports of a possible last-minute settlement emerged, but a trial is probably the best way for Dominion to achieve its goal of public accountability for leaning into election denialism.