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- The settlement Fox News may pay to Smartmatic could be around $1 billion, experts say.
- Dominion settled for a record-breaking $787.5 million, but Smartmatic is asking for more.
- Fox News has called the lawsuits an attack on free speech and says Smartmatic overstated its value.
The $787.5 million Fox News coughed up to settle a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems earlier this year broke the record for the largest-ever known defamation settlement in US history.
Disney's $177 million settlement for the infamous "pink slime" lawsuit in 2017 dropped to second place.