Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing personality who hosted the network's highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties. 9News
The announcement came on Monday one week afterfor $US787.5 million over the network's dissemination of election lies.
The person, who was not authorised to speak publicly on the matter, declined to further elaborate about the abrupt end to the right-wing opinion host's employment at the network.Just prior to the network's announcement, Fox had been promoting on its air a Monday night interview by Carlson with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. And on Carlson's Friday show, he concluded the program saying "we'll be back on Monday".
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