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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The actor-turned-politician lost a High Court case with former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal.
Reclaim Party founder Mr Fox - who said at the time that he would boycott Sainsbury's - counter-sued the pair over tweets accusing him of racism and attempted to sue broadcaster Nicola Thorp for the same reason.
The judge did not make a ruling on whether describing Mr Fox as "a racist" was "substantially true", after finding the three tweets in his counter-claim were unlikely to cause serious harm to his reputation.
"They are entitled by law to an award of money, to compensate them for those damaging effects, and to ensure that they can put this matter behind them, vindicated and confident that no-one can sensibly doubt their blamelessness of that disgusting slur and that they were seriously wronged by it."
The judge said there was "no element" of punishment for Mr Fox in the judgement, with the damages due "purely compensatory".
Ahead of Thursday's ruling, Mr Fox described the original judgement as a "bullies charter" and said he disagreed "profoundly" with the result.
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