In recent weeks, evidence has emerged from court filings revealing a split screen between what Fox was portraying to its viewers about the false claims of election fraud and what hosts and executives were saying about them behind the scenes.
, Murdoch argued that Fox as a network did not endorse the claims, but that some of its commentators — Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity — at times did.claims made by Trump and his allies
Dominion’s lawyers say Fox is arguing that it has no legal responsibility for broadcasting even the most horrible allegations, knowing they are false, as long as they are deemed newsworthy. Still, Levine said, Dominion has the strongest defamation case he's seen in 40 years of being involved in the topic.
There is sentiment in Republican circles that the Sullivan standard goes too far in protecting news organizations.
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