Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement Doesn’t End Its 2020 Liability

Fox News’s agreement to pay $787.5 million to settle a voting machine maker’s defamation lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election broadcasts leaves a similar, $2.7 billion suit by voting technology company Smartmatic Corp. to reckon with.

Tuesday’s settlement with Dominion Voting Systems Inc., for almost half the $1.6 billion Dominion sought, was struck on the brink of a potentially embarrassing six-week trial. Now Fox must grapple with Smartmatic’s suit, which a judge declined to dismiss last year. After the settlement, Smartmatic said in a statement that it would “expose the rest” of Fox’s “misconduct.”

The Dominion deal came ...