Just as a blockbuster defamation trial was about to get under way, Fox News and Dominion voting systems reached a settlement.

It will require Fox News to make a whopping $787-million to Dominion for all of those Fox anchors spreading lies and disinformation about the 2020 presidential election.

And that might look like a deal compared Dominion's original ask of $1.6-billion in damages.

Cary Coglianese is founding director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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