Corporations were never going to save us from Fox News. Selling lies is an immensely profitable business, and Dominion just wanted a cut.

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On Tuesday, Fox News, the 24-hour sewer of lies, settled a lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems for over $787,000,000.

Sound like a lot of money? It’s not. Fox Corporation is valued at over $17 billion. News Corp., also owned by billionaire oligarch Rupert Murdoch, is valued at another $10 billion.

For Fox News, this is nothing more than a business expense and a tax write-off. They don’t have to apologize. They won’t have to testify under oath. They don’t have to stop pushing Trump’s Big Lie. Onward they go.

The lesson from all this? A corporate lawsuit was never going to save us from Fox News.

None of this comes as a surprise to us at Common Dreams. For the corporate media—and not just Fox—it’s all about money and political control.

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