Strong as Dominion’s case may have been I doubt it was watertight. There was a legally high bar for them to jump, and Fox were not without any form of defence - Fox argued that they could honestly report that the Trump camp was making allegations of election fraud involving Dominion, and that was newsworthy in itself, even if what the Trump camp were saying was false.
I’m not saying that is right or that it is a defence that would have been successful - but it created a risk that Dominion probably quite properly took into account in deciding to settle.
Anyone here sneering at Dominion for accepting the money is being unfair and unrealistic. Why are they under some sort of societal obligation to litigate to save the USA by taking on Fox any more than anyone else? They’ve done at least their fair share.