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Paramount pays Trump $16 million to settle Harris lawsuit
Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle its lawsuit with Donald Trump filed during the 2020 presidential campaign.
The deal is controversial as legal experts said Paramount had a strong chance of prevailing in court and may have settled to smooth the path for its$2.4 billion Skydance merger. The network said it edited one of her answers for time (about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanhau), but Trump's attorney alleged that CBS intended to "confuse, deceive and mislead the public" by leaving out her full comments. Several legal experts called the lawsuit " frivolous and dangerous," as CBS didn't report any factual inaccuracies and the First Amendment gives media companies wide leeway in presenting information.
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