The parents of Seth Rich reached a settlement with Fox News resolving a 2018 lawsuit that accused the network of ‘extreme and outrageous’ conduct in the wake of their son’s death. 
Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, was shot and killed in a still-unsolved murder on July 10, 2016.
A Fox News article published in May 2017 by reporter Malia Zimmerman made a false and baseless claim, citing unnamed sources, that Rich was killed in retaliation for leaking DNC emails to WikiLeaks in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
The article was retracted a week later, but its baseless claims were repeated by Fox News host Sean Hannity and contributed to wild conspiracy theories spread by fringe groups on both the right and left.
The lies and myths surrounding Rich’s death only added to his family's grief and reportedly complicated the actual investigation into the crime.
A January 2017 report by U.S. intelligence officials concluded definitively that it was the Russian government, and not Rich, that was responsible for hacking the DNC.
In a statement, Rich's parents urged the media to take ‘genuine caution in the future.’ The terms of the settlement are undisclosed.
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