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Fox Nation Fail: Murdoch’s Big Bet on Streaming Flounders<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <h3><em><strong>This reporting is featured in this week’s edition of </strong></em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em><strong>Confider</strong></em></a><em><strong>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe </strong></em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em><strong>here</strong></em></a><em><strong> and send your questions, tips, and complaints </strong></em><a href="mailto:confider@thedailybeast.com"><em><strong>here</strong></em></a><em><strong>.</strong></em></h3> <p>The future of the Murdoch empire's big bet on streaming is under a cloud, as the conservative cable giant began cutting staff at Fox Nation last month, coinciding with post-Dominion layoffs across Fox News Media, multiple people familiar with the situation told Confider. </p> <p>Fox Nation became especially vulnerable after Fox fired Tucker Carlson just days after reaching a $787.5-million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, costing the OTT streamer its top original content producer and arguably biggest draw for subscribers. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-nation-fail-murdochs-big-bet-on-streaming-flounders">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty

This reporting is featured in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.

The future of the Murdoch empire’s big bet on streaming is under a cloud, as the conservative cable giant began cutting staff at Fox Nation last month, coinciding with post-Dominion layoffs across Fox News Media, multiple people familiar with the situation told Confider.

Fox Nation became especially vulnerable after Fox fired Tucker Carlson just days after reaching a $787.5-million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, costing the OTT streamer its top original content producer and arguably biggest draw for subscribers.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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