Fox News has defied predictions, growing 56% in prime-time viewership despite paying $787.5 million to settle Dominion’s 2020 election fraud lawsuit.

The network now captures 62% of cable news audience while competitors MSNBC and CNN have lost viewers over two years.

NEW YORK — Twice recently, the people who run Fox News were reminded of their biggest nightmare.

The conservative network Newsmax’s $67-million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over false claims after the 2020 election recalled Fox’s own $787.5-million deal with the same company more than two years ago. New legal papers filed last month by a second company suing Fox, Smartmatic, also put an episode they would like to forget back in the news.

Between the staggering payment to bypass a defamation trial and revelatio

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