Big mistakes yield large damages. Fox News has been sued for $1.6 billion dollars in damages over their role in falsifying the claims of the Trump campaign that there was widespread voter fraud in the presidential election and claiming that it was done, in part, by manipulating electronic machines such as those Dominion Voting Systems sold to a number of jurisdictions. 
That claim had since been proven entirely false and the rather slow process of bringing justice to the injustice it caused has worked its way up to the deposition, under oath, of the news organizations president Lachan Murdoch, the son of Rupert, now retired.
It is a defamation lawsuit, which claims knowing falsehoods were broadcast to mislead the public thereby damaging the reputation of Dominion and costing them future sales. In simple terms Dominion is correct. Their machines worked as designed and correctly recorded and reported every vote cast. Fox News said otherwise and now claims the First Amendment to the Constitution protects their right to free speech and that Journalists have a privilege to protect their sources from discovery in such lawsuits.
I consider myself a journalist and so try to be accurate in publishing my opinions. They are just opinions, however, and I am careful to say so. The prime on air villain in this story, Hannity of Fox News, made the mistake some time ago of saying he is not. He is an advocate of this side or that one and takes sides while attacking those that are on the other side of whatever it is at the moment. 
Hannity is a talk show host, not a journalist, and is on the record having said so. He has no immunity from being deposed in a lawsuit and indeed has been. That led to the disclosure that the network, not just Hannity personally, made the decision to go with the fraud stories, say they were true, and promote the fiction for the sake of numbers of viewers. 
Even after they knew it wasn’t true they persisted although a noticeable walking back from the precipice began when they projected on air that Biden had won Arizona. 
This will eventually go to trial in Delaware, where the suit was brought, and by then many people will wonder why we’re still talking about it. Regardless of who wins, we are all the losers.
The truth matters. Election results, when reported, need to be the truth. Projections are just speculation and I don’t pay any attention to them. There have been a number of famous mistakes made in polls and by pundits about who won. 
Al Gore would have been president had the recount already underway in Florida been allowed to finish but the Supreme Court intervened, voted their party affiliations and gave Bush the win. Gore had no choice but to accept its decision and we all suffer still from knowing that the final result of a national election comes down to who sits on the Supreme Court. 
It shouldn’t matter, but obviously now after Roe’s reversal it does. It will be some time before the mistakes wrought by rabid partisanship can be corrected but they will if the people know the truth. This lawsuit is part of that process. Whether the truth about what was done will be revealed remains to be seen. 
The Jan. 6 Congressional Committee released their final report and made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. It was a bipartisan effort. Together with the civil defamation suits those who lied to fool us now face prison and poverty as a consequence. Justice is a real possibility.