Top Fox News anchors and executives privately raised concerns about false claims of voter fraud made on the air by network hosts and guests following the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing made public Thursday
Fox and Dominion attorneys are expected to argue their cases before the court next month.
Fox News Media said Dominion’s filing takes an extreme and unsupported view of defamation law, and used “cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.” Fox argues that Dominion doesn’t have the facts to prove defamation, and has said it is a question of press freedom to report on a major news event. Dominion’s filing attempts to show through communications with the executives and hosts that they knew the information wasn’t true but continued to air the false claims, both on Fox News and Fox Business.
As Fox News’s ratings dipped in the wake of the election as viewers defected to competitors like Newsmax, Fox executives went on “war footing”—in the words of Fox News President Jay Wallace in a text message to Fox News CEOIn a text to Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chair and CEO of Fox Corp., in the days after the election, Ms. Scott discussed the company’s plan to undo the damage to Fox’s relationship with its audience. “Viewers going through the 5 stages of grief.
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