Maybe a jury will decide Fox News really is responsible for tarnishing the reputation of a vote-tabulating tech firm. I don’t care. But if not, maybe CNN viewers and New York Times readers should get ready to sue those two for lying about the details of the lawsuit.
As gleefully told by CNN and the Times, new legal documents prove that prominent Fox executives and primetime hosts knew that allegations from Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign advisers about machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems corrupting the 2020 election were false, but repeated them to the Fox audience as true anyway. That would mean Fox is liable for the defamation of Dominion for the purpose of, Dominion says, satisfying the cable channel’s Trump-loving audience.
The evidence to back it up — or, as CNN and the Times suggest, indisputably prove it! — is in the court filings by Dominion, which include comments made publicly by Fox personnel and private messages between primetime hosts and executives.
The private communications do demonstrate that hosts such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham privately rejected the allegations put forth by some on Trump’s legal team that Dominion machines were compromised and delivered a false victory to Joe Biden. But interestingly enough, there is nothing documented about those people at Fox or anyone else at Fox asserting on air that the claims related to Dominion were true.
Some hosts did air segments featuring interviews with Trump advisers who repeated those claims and acknowledged the allegations
