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Schadenfreude: $1 billion defamation case against CNN wipes the smile off Jake Tapper’s face

By Elizabeth Stauffer
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Schadenfreude: $1 billion defamation case against CNN wipes the smile off Jake Tapper’s face

The Left rejoiced last year when a Delaware judge announced that Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, had reached a whopping $787.5 million settlement in their defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. The network had been accused of spreading misinformation about fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

According to the New York Times, the massive settlement equated to “roughly two-thirds of Fox Corporation’s [2022] net annual income.”

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