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Advertisers Are Ditching Bill O’Reilly Over Harassment Allegations

More than two dozen companies are pulling ads from the most-watched cable-news show amid yet another scandal at Fox News.
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Updated on April 5 at 2:44 p.m. ET

In a recurring segment on his show, , Bill O’Reilly likes to take on an “Unresolved Problem,” something he judges the media and national conversation at large to have glossed over without a close enough look. Now O’Reilly and his network are facing an unresolved problem of their own, in the wake of the publication of a investigation that found that he and his employers have paid out a total of $13 million to turned up yet another claim against Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman who himself was ousted last summer amid a host of sexual harassment allegations.

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