Newsmax pays Dominion $67m
August 19, 2025
Right-leaning news channel Newsmax is to pay $67 million (€57.4m) to settle the libel suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the channel for falsely claiming that the voting machine company had rigged votes in the 2020 US presidential election.
The settlement, completed on August 15th, was disclosed in an S.E.C. filing by Newsmax. It noted that Newsmax would make the payments in three instalments by January 2027.
Dominion confirmed the deal, saying: “We are pleased to have settled this matter”.
Newsmax did not offer an apology, saying in a statement on August 18th that it stood by its coverage as “fair, balanced and conducted within professional standards of journalism”. A Newsmax spokesman said the settlement did not require the company to make an apology or a retraction.
In 2021, Dominion sued Newsmax for $1.6 billion, accusing the cable channel of knowingly broadcasting conspiracy theories that falsely implicated the company in election fraud and vote rigging, reports NYT. Dominion accused Newsmax of making the baseless claims in 18 statements on television, as well as in a social media post. The statements included false claims that Dominion’s software had manipulated vote counts, that Dominion had ties to a Venezuelan company and that Dominion paid kickbacks to certain government officials.
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