Key takeaways:
- The documents include emails, text messages, and other material from Fox News executives and on-air personalities.
- The documents show how Fox News’ staff privately dismissed some of the election conspiracies that were promoted on-air.
- The documents suggest that Murdoch was concerned that some of his top talent might have pushed Donald Trump’s stolen election myth too far.
On Tuesday, hundreds of pages of previously unreleased documents were made public as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The documents include emails, text messages, and other material from Fox News executives and on-air personalities.
The documents show how Fox News’ staff privately dismissed some of the election conspiracies that were promoted on-air. Dominion has alleged in its lawsuit that during the 2020 presidential election the right-wing talk channel “recklessly disregarded the truth”.
The documents also include statements from Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch rejecting conspiracy theories about Dominion that his own network promoted after the 2020 election. In an email to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott the day after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Murdoch lamented the anger the network was getting from Republican senators for stories suggesting the election had been stolen.
The documents suggest that Murdoch was concerned that some of his top talent might have pushed Donald Trump’s stolen election myth too far.
The trove of documents released Tuesday provides a glimpse into the inner workings of Fox News and how the network has handled the 2020 election. The documents could be used as evidence in the defamation lawsuit, which is ongoing. It remains to be seen how the documents will affect the outcome of the case.
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