That’s a pathetic sum if you see how much they earn.
Newsmax made almost 50 million in revenue just in the second quarter of 2025. You can almost guarantee they made far more money profiting off their lies, than they’re about to lose. This is good business for them. These lawsuits need to start being in the billions and not in the millions.
This won’t stop as long as it’s just a price of doing business.
Throw a CEO and hosts in jail for a decade tho, and it’ll suddenly be less common for the media to blatantly lie about shit.
Defamation is a civil issue so you can’t be jailed for it, I believe.
Yeah, that’s the problem. Make this specific type of misrepresentation a crime.
I’m sure the legislative branch controlled by Republicans will get right on that
The Democrats would never do that either. This is a capitalist dictatorship problem; both parties are owned by, and answer, to it.
There’s criminal charges for yelling “fire” in a crowded building with no fire…
Why shouldn’t there be criminal charges for intentionally lying an election was stolen which lead to a literal coup attempt?
There’s actually several scenarios where you can yell fire in a crowded theater
Regardless, they are 2 completely separate situations. Until leadership gets serious about white collar crime, we’re stuck with what we have
It makes me sad that Newsmax is even worth $67M, let alone enough more than that to survive settling for $67M
Oh, they’ve been doing pretty well for themselves ever since Fox News has been labeled as “too woke” because they sometimes disagree with Trump’s agenda.
They need to have their license revoked and the bosses arrested
No it won’t
Some nice philanthropist will bail them out
