Fox Settled Seth Rich Suit For Millions With Stipulation That Agreement Not Go Public Until After The Election

The New York Times reports:

Fox’s decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com.

But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. The exhausted plaintiffs agreed.

Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period? Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath?

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“The unusual arrangement underscores how deeply entwined Fox has become in the Trump camp’s disinformation efforts and the dangerous paranoia they set off. The network parroted lies from Trump and his more sinister allies for years” https://t.co/lQLeSFNFMc

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 18, 2021

Fox News is a fucking cesspool and ⁦@seanhannity⁩ and ⁦@LouDobbs⁩ chose to further ruin a family’s life after their son was murdered because they thought it would help Trump. https://t.co/cEW2aFMo3c

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 18, 2021