The woman fatally shot as she pushed her way inside the House chamber had engaged Fox contributors dozens of times on Twitter, NPR reported. The man arrested after rampaging through the Capitol with zip-tie handcuffs had proudly posted to Facebook a photograph with his shotgun and Fox Business on a giant screen in the background. The network parroted lies from Trump and his more sinister allies for years, ultimately amplifying the presidentвЂ™s enormous deceptions about the electionвЂ™s outcome, further radicalizing many of Mr. The unusual arrangement underscores how deeply entwined Fox has become in the Trump campвЂ™s disinformation efforts and the dangerous paranoia they set off, culminating in the fatal attack on the Capitol 11 days ago. And two people close to the case, who shared details of the settlement with me, were puzzled by that provision, too. 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 presidentвЂ™s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?ДЇox News and its lawyer, Joe Terry, declined to answer that question when I asked last week.

And Fox paid so much that the network didnвЂ™t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on .Д«ut there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month - until after the Nov. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)ДЇoxвЂ™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. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign.

12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C.

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