Fox News fights legal bid by rival media to reveal details of defamation payoff

Fox agreed last month to pay $787 million to end the case.

Fox News is fighting a legal bid to reveal details of texts relating to the 2020 presidential election (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organisations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal”.

The Associated Press, The New York Times and National Public Radio asked a Delaware judge earlier this week to reveal mostly private text messages and conversations between Fox employees shortly after the 2020 presidential election that were uncovered during the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit.