Key takeaways:
- Fox News is facing a lawsuit from former Capitol Hill reporter Jason Donner, who alleges wrongful termination for speaking out against false claims of election fraud.
- Donner claims that Fox News sought to win back viewership and pledge its loyalty to President Trump by purging the news division and those reporters who spoke out against claims of election fraud.
- The lawsuit, which was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, is seeking unspecified damages.
Fox News is facing a lawsuit from former Capitol Hill reporter Jason Donner, who alleges that the network wrongfully fired him for speaking out against false claims of election fraud.
Donner claims that Fox News was aware that President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud were false, but after backlash from Trump and the network’s audience, it “purged” journalists who spoke out against the claims.
In the lawsuit, Donner claims that Fox News sought to win back viewership and pledge its loyalty to President Trump by purging the news division and those reporters who spoke out against claims of election fraud.
Donner also alleges that his political disagreements with the network’s big personalities did not pose a problem for him professionally until the fallout from the 2020 election.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, is seeking unspecified damages. Fox News has not yet commented on the lawsuit.
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