To the U-S, where Fox News will pay $NZ1.2 billion to avert a high-profile trial where its primetime hosts would have been asked about the network's coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 Presidential election.

Earlier court filings showed Fox Corp chair, Rupert Murdoch, and primetime hosts such as Sean Hannity had privately acknowledged that the vote-rigging claims made about Dominion on-air were false.

The defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems was due to open today but settled at the last minute.

University of Auckland political scientist Maria Armoudian spoke to Katie Scotcher.