Revelations emerge as Dominion Voting accuses network of amplifying debunked claims in $1.6bn lawsuit – follow all the latest news
Fox News has been broadsided by the latest court motions revealing that people from top executives down to reporters knew that’s claims that victory in the 2020 election had been stolen from him because of fraud were bogus – but star commentary hosts boosted those claims anyway.’s Fox Corporation, was plunged into what one executive called an “existential crisis” between its news reporting side and its opinion show side.
The company’s election “decisions desk” that was crunching the voter numbers stuck to its conclusion thatbeat Trump in the pivotal state of Arizona and then went on to win the 2020 election, while leading hosts including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were not just examining Trump’s claims but were amplifying them on air.
“In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis – at least journalistically,”, a senior news editor who was leading the decisions desk at the time, texted to a co-worker, court motions showed.Fox News Networks for $1.6bn, accusing the channel of boosting false claims that their voting machines were used to rig the presidential election against Trump.
Good morning, US politics live blog readers, there’s a lively day in store in Washington and the overnight deluge of new revelations in the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox,’s bogus claims of election fraud continues to wash over America.as details continue to surface from the massive civil case by voting machine makeragainst Fox News Networks for boosting Trump’s lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election, not Democratas part of Dominion’s motion in court for summary judgment of its $1.
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