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- Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil.
- Khalil was accused on air of rigging the 2020 presidential election by then-Fox host Lou Dobbs.
- The network faces a slew of lawsuits, with jury selection imminent in the $1.6 billion Dominion trial.
Fox News settled a lawsuit filed by Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, who accused the news outlet of defamation after then-Fox Business News host Lou Dobbs claimed on air that Khalil helped rig the 2020 US presidential election.
Shortly after the election, Dobbs took to Twitter to call it a "cyber Pearl harbor" and said that Khalil was a "liaison with Hezbollah" who had executed an "electoral 9-11."
The former Fox host also accused Khalil and other Venezuelans of being involved in a scheme to oust former president Donald Trump.