Don’t freak out …
It was supposed to be the defamation trial of the century. Fox News was finally going to be held accountable for knowingly amplifying lies. Truth would finally win out. Only that didn’t exactly happen. Fox did have to pay a whopping $787.5 million, but it wasn’t required to come clean to its viewers.
So yes, it’s easy to feel like Fox got off the hook.
But this isn’t the end of the story. The network could be in even hotter water soon, with an even bigger defamation suit looming. Smartmatic, a larger voting technology company, is seeking $2.7 billion in damages from Fox for similarly spreading falsehoods and misinformation about the 2020 election.
Indeed, Smartmatic’s response to the Dominion settlement was swift: “Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest.”
While we don’t actually know what Smartmatic’s lawsuit may reveal, it certainly sounds as if the company’s lawyers have no plans to back down from this ongoing fight.
A story you should be following: Child labor abuse
According to The New York Times, more than 250,000 children have migrated alone to the United States in the past two years. Thousands of these children have potentially been subjected to dangerous work conditions in factories and slaughterhouses, all in violation of child labor laws.
The conditions these kids are living in are shocking. And it makes everyone involved look bad, from federal government agencies to the White House. Making matters worse, some states appear to be making it even easier to keep children in the workforce.
Earlier this week, Iowa state lawmakers advanced a bill that loosens state child labor laws, including extended work hours. Last month, the governor of Arkansas passed a bill rolling back child labor protections and making it easier for children to be employed. I will be watching closely whether other states follow…
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