The American channel Pro-Trump Newsmax has undertaken to pay $ 67 million (57.4 million euros) to the Dominion electronic voting machines who was pursuing it for having disseminated false accusations of electoral fraud after the 2020 presidential election, according to an official document published Monday, August 18.
Dominion Voting Systems had concluded an agreement with Fox News in April 2023 for similar facts, forcing the Rupert Murdoch chain, much appreciated by the conservatives, to pay him $ 787.5 million to end the defamation of the same type.
The company Dominion had been accused by media close to the outgoing republican president, Donald Trump, of having used his electronic voting machines to fake the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden but that Donald Trump still refuses to recognize as a defeat.
A three -tranche regulation
Dominion demanded $ 1.6 billion from Newsmax for having disseminated false accusations of electoral fraud. In a statement, Newsmax explained that it had sought to conclude a financial agreement because it “Would not have received a fair trial” On the part of the judge appointed for this file in the state of Delaware, that of Joe Biden, where the complaint had been filed. “We always claim that our coverage was fair, balanced and carried out as part of journalistic standards”also said the chain.
In a document filed on Monday with the American Federal Financial Market Regulatory organization, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Newsmax specifies that it has paid 27 million dollars to Dominion on Friday and that it will pay the balance in two tranches in 2026 and 2027.
