Thread by @Monaheart1229

Per NYT:
Fox News multi-million $ settlement w Seth Rich's family came just before Dobbs & Hannity were to be depo'd
-was enough that Fox didn't have to apologize publicly
-Fox insisted it be kept secret til after the election
nytimes.com/2021/01/17/bus…

2-"On Oct. 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,

3-"Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)

4-"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.

5-"And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com.

6-"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.

7-[questions Fox wouldn't answer:] "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

8-"unresolved for that period?Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?.."