Key takeaways:
- Fox News employees expressed serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
- The filing includes internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage, which reveal that producers, executives and stars of the network knew that the election wasn’t stolen and that many fraud claims were bogus.
- The lawsuit claims that Fox News continued to promote false claims of election fraud as credible, despite knowing that they were outlandish and false.
Fox News employees expressed serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.
The filing includes internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage, which reveal that producers, executives and stars of the network knew that the election wasn’t stolen and that many fraud claims were bogus.
For example, Tucker Carlson told a producer on November 16, 2020 that Sidney Powell was “lying” about having evidence for election fraud. The filing is the latest made public in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, one of the largest manufacturers of U.S. voting equipment.
The lawsuit claims that Fox News continued to promote false claims of election fraud as credible, despite knowing that they were outlandish and false. Dominion Voting Systems has been a frequent target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim Trump won the election.
The court filing is part of a larger legal battle between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. It remains to be seen how the court will rule on the case, and whether Fox News will be held accountable for its role in promoting false claims.
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