Fox News-Dominion settlement doesn’t end crisis for Rupert Murdoch’s empire

By Meg James

Fox Corp. has settled the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, but the company’s troubles are far from over.

Beyond the $787.5-million payout to end the Dominion case, Fox now must contend with a second defamation suit filed by a rival voting machine company, Smartmatic USA, which has demanded $2.7 billion.

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“Fox has done a good job not making any information about this case available on their channel,” former Fox News contributor John Ellis said. “It’s like old East Berlin.”

But the network has a dilemma as Trump is currently leading opinion polls among possible Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential election. And documents that surfaced in the Dominion case show Murdoch and others were ready to put Trump in the rearview mirror.