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Missteps and miscalculations: Inside Fox’s legal and business debacle

By Jim Rutenberg, Michael S. Schmidt, Jeremy W. Peters
New York Times·
17 mins to read

Fox’s handling of the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which settled for $1.29 billion left many unanswered questions.

In August 2021, the Fox Corp. board of directors gathered on the company’s movie studio lot in Los Angeles. Among the topics on the agenda: Dominion Voting Systems’ US$1.6 billion ($2.6 billion) defamation lawsuit against its cable news network, Fox News.

The suit posed a threat to the company’s finances and reputation. But Fox’s chief legal officer, Viet Dinh, reassured

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