As Donald Trump and his inner circle potentially face indictments over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Fox News is also in legal hot water for amplifying the same unfounded claims about election fraud. Dominion Voting Systems, which makes voting machines, has sued the conservative cable news outlet for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit that has exposed how top hosts and executives knew they were spreading misinformation but continued to push the conspiracy theories on air. “Fox News, despite its corporate name, is not in fact a news organization,”
Chris Lehmann, we wanted to move on to your other piece for The Nation that’s headlined “The Internal Decapitation of Fox News: Documents from Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox show the network’s awareness of the flimsiness of its stolen-election narrative.” That’s from your piece. See, Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit lays out how Fox News hosts and top executives thought former President Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims were completely unfounded, yet continued to push his conspiracy theories on air.
— source democracynow.org | Feb 22, 2023