Article by Sam Levine in The Guardian, 9/30/24

Headline: “What price are US media outlets paying for spreading election lies?”

Subhead: “A wave of lawsuits ending in settlements show defamation law is not going to save us from election misinformation”

“As voting got under way for the 2024 US presidential election, the voting technology company Smartmatic and the conservative outlet Newsmax reached an agreement about election lies in the last one.”

. . . “Some of the settlements have come with on-air apologies and retractions. Others, including the agreement between Fox and Dominion, have not. In some cases, the terms of the agreements have not been disclosed at all, leaving the public in the dark about what price, if any, outlets are paying for spreading election lies.”

. . . “Lidsky cautioned against expecting too much from trials. ”

“ ‘The public hasn’t, as a whole, bought into the definitive declaration of truth,’ she said. ‘There are, through motivated reasoning, people who are going to continue to believe what they want to believe.’ ”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/election-lies-misinformation-media