Analysis: Fox was a hotbed of backbiting, and its vaunted news division wasn’t as neutral as it claimed to be. The suit carries implications not just for Fox financially, but also about what responsibility a news outlet has to not promote misinformation.
in the case — including that of Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch, who acknowledged that his hosts endorsed stolen-election claims and expressed regret for that — and additional details from exhibits attached to the filings.
After the documents were released Tuesday, Fox accused Dominion of “distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.
Other key comments come from Fox host Tucker Carlson. We knew previously that he privately warned that Trump “.” What we didn’t know was that he was speaking in the context of Trump’s business ventures. Carlson responded: “All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”At other points, both Murdoch and Carlson seemed to long for when Trump would be gone.
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