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Fox News (fake news) and right-wing media use fake news, lies, disinformation, fear, hate, racism, propaganda, alternative facts, conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda to divide America and promote the rabbit right and the Russian agendas.
Story by David Edwards

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser confronted Fox News host Brian Kilmeade for broadcasting a false narrative about President Joe Biden's visit to his city Wednesday. During an interview on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade argued that El Paso had removed migrants from the city for Biden's visit earlier this year.

"And the crazy thing is, when the president came, you guys cleaned up the streets," Kilmeade opined. "So he saw a sanitized El Paso, not the one that you have to deal with every day."

"Well, let me explain something," Leeser replied. "That was a very incorrect statement." "When the president came, the numbers had gone down, and you were able to see they had gone down," the mayor noted. "Mr. Mayor, you cleaned up the streets for the president," Kilmeade argued. "That was not a candid look of El Paso."
By Intelligencer Staff

In April, just as Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News was going to trial, Fox settled the case with a $787.5 million payment. Days later, in shocking news that may or may not be directly related to revelations the Dominion lawsuit uncovered, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, its biggest star.

Dominion had accused Fox personalities of repeatedly airing debunked election-fraud theories involving Dominion’s voting machine used in the 2020 election. Dominion would have had to prove that Fox News hosts knowingly disseminated falsehoods to their viewers. To that end, the company subpoenaed extensive internal text messages and emails from and between prominent names in the Fox News infrastructure, including Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Rupert Murdoch himself.

In the messages, all from the weeks after the election, the hosts discuss Donald Trump, their often-critical thoughts on Fox management, and their opinions on 2020 election fraud — opinions that often conflict with Fox’s public-facing coverage.
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

New York CNN — Tucker Carlson sent a racist text message that “set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox” and ultimately led to his firing, The New York Times reported Tuesday. But the abhorrent racism Carlson put on display should not have surprised anyone at Fox.

After all, Carlson openly employed white nationalist rhetoric on his Fox News program for years. Groups like the Anti-Defamation League, GLAAD and Black Lives Matter repeatedly warned Fox executives and pleaded with the network to take action, all to no avail.

In the January 2021 text message first reported by The Times and later confirmed by CNN, Carlson wrote to a producer about an online video of a group of Trump supporters “pounding the living s**t” out of a protester. The text, which was redacted in court filings, was just one of several private conversations collected in the massive defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News.

“It was three against one, at least,” Carlson wrote to the unidentified producer. “Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.” Soon after, “an alarm went off” in his brain, Carlson added, telling his producer he realized he was “becoming something” he didn’t “want to be.”
Opinion by Sarah Rumpf

Fox News paid dearly for their decision to broadcast former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election: an enormous $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems that came after months of embarrassing headlines about private communications between Fox’s on-air personalities and top executives admitting Trump lost, all culminating in the defenestration of its top-rated host Tucker Carlson. Plus, there’s the Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit still looming menacingly.

The ex-president has repaid that loyalty with a metaphorical punch in the face. Trump will participate in a town hall next week in the critically-important early primary state of New Hampshire, taking questions from undecided GOP primary voters, a highly publicized, nationally televised event that is very likely to deliver solid ratings for the network hosting it – and that network will not be Fox News, but instead its competitor CNN.
Story by Tom Boggioni

An early investor in Dominion Voting Sytems recalled the impact a report by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo had on himself and his parents – which was so extreme they gave serious consideration to fleeing the U.S. over fears for their safety, he said in an interview with Axios.

Days after Fox settled the defamation lawsuit with Dominion for a stunning $787.5 millionmillion, Hootan Yaghoobzadeh sat down to talk about his involvement with the company and the current state of affairs.

Currently the Managing Director of Staple Street Capital, Yaghoobzadeh explained he joined forces with Dominion in 2018 after seeing potential for enormous growth, and told Axios, "Management grew the business by 4.5 times. But once the defamation happened, the world collapsed for us."
Story by Michael Luciano

Fox News has a so-called “oppo file” on Tucker Carlson that it is willing to weaponize against him if he takes shots at his old network, Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday. The network vehemently denies the report. Fox announced his departure on Monday morning, stating it was mutual. However, sources say he was fired. The termination came as the network faces a lawsuit from a former Carlson producer who is alleging sexual harassment and discrimination at the network.

Rolling Stone reported that eight sources told the publication that Fox “has assembled damaging information about Carlson. One source with knowledge calls it an ‘oppo file.’ Two sources add that Fox is prepared to disclose some of its contents if execs suspect that Carlson is coming after the network.”
Ex-producer says Tucker Carlson told her to threaten Republican officials: 'We will destroy you'
Story by Sarah K. Burris

Former Tucker Carlson producer spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace about her lawsuit against Fox News after experiencing a what she alleges was a hostile work environment. Among the things she revealed was the way in which the Fox News host was able to browbeat Republicans into doing whatever he wanted.

Grossberg explained that when she first came to Fox to work with Maria Bartiromo, she felt like it was a positive experience because, "even when I disagreed with her, I think she believed in what she was doing." That was not the case with Carlson.

"When I got to Tucker, it was different," explained Grossberg. "As the texts came out, it revealed my suspicions, he was looking for ratings bait purely and was looking for power. It was a combination of ratings and power and manipulating the audience and manipulating the political system."
‘Wow!’ Morning Joe Stunned by Russian Foreign Minister’s Comments on Tucker Carlson’s Ouster from Fox News
Story by Colby Hall

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were stunned to hear Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments about Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News. Speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, Lavrov brought up the matter of Carlson’s firing without prompting and implied that Carlson’s firing by Fox News was done at the behest of the U.S. government. Mediates Micahel Luciano wrote about his comments on Tuesday:

“Perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the United States,” Lavrov said. “I’ve heard that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News. It’s curious news. What is this related to? One can only guess. But, clearly, the wealth of views in the American information space has suffered as a result.”

Carlson has been more than a critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February 2022. He has demonized Ukraine’s leadership, including President Volodymyr Zelensky by calling him a dictator. Not surprisingly, clips of Carlson have appeared on Russian state-run media. Coming out of the clip, Brzezinski exclaimed, “Wow!” after which Scarborough noted, “it is extraordinary.”

Story by Alex Henderson

On Monday, April 24, the day's biggest media bombshell was, hands down, Tucker Carlson's totally unexpected departure from Fox News. The news that CNN had fired liberal host Don Lemon also broke that same day, but that story was overshadowed by the news that Rupert Murdoch himself had reportedly decided to fire Carlson despite the fact that he was Fox News' biggest star. Fox News has plenty of hosts who are major figures in right-wing media, from Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham to Jeanine Pirro. But no one at Fox News generated higher ratings than the incendiary, highly controversial Carlson.

During the George W. Bush years, Carlson, now 53, sometimes expressed sympathy for libertarian ideas and was an admirer of then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). And he was employed by very mainstream outlets, from CNN and MSNBC to PBS. But along the way, Carlson took a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist turn. Carlson often frustrated liberals and progressives during the 2000s; when he was hosting "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Fox News from 2016-2023, he scared them. And to Never Trump conservatives, Carlson came to symbolize everything they considered dangerous about the MAGA movement.
The long-time Fox News host was not given a farewell broadcast
Graig Graziosi, Namita Singh

“Blindsided” Tucker Carlson was in the midst of negotiating a new contract with Fox News when he received a call from CEO Suzanne Scott on Monday morning telling him he had been fired from the right-wing network, according to a report.
Story by Christopher Palmeri and Gerry Smith

(Bloomberg) -- Fox News, in announcing Monday that it’s parted ways with Tucker Carlson, is losing a host who brought in millions of viewers but proved too much to handle even for corporate chiefs Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.

Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems Inc. uncovered evidence that Carlson insulted his management, colleagues and guests. A still unresolved suit by former Fox producer Abby Grossberg accuses the popular host of misogyny and contributing to a hostile workplace. After Fox agreed to settle Dominion’s defamation case for a record $787.5 million, the Murdochs decided it was time to say goodbye to their star.
Story by Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the top-rated cable news host, are "parting ways," the network announced Monday. Carlson's last hosting duty for his prime-time conservative opinion show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" was Friday, Fox said. An interim show, consisting of rotating Fox News personalities, will fill the 8 ET time slot starting tonight until a new host is named. "We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor," Fox said.

Carlson, 53, did not telegraph the news on Friday's show, and Fox never gave him the opportunity to address his viewers. Instead, he signed off from what turned out to be his final show with, "We'll be back on Monday; in the meantime have the best weekend."

Carlson became Fox’s most popular personality after replacing Bill O’Reilly, who was fired in 2016 after settling a sexual harassment investigation. He’s also consistently drawn headlines for controversial coverage, most recently airing tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to minimize the impact of the deadly attack.
Story by Clever Rebel

Carlson's last FOX broadcast was on Friday, the right wing news outlet announced, today. In the early 2000s, Tucker Carlson was already a well-known figure in political commentary, having made a name for himself as a co-host on CNN's "Crossfire." Even back then, his controversial opinions and confrontational style drew criticism from a number of high-profile figures in the entertainment and political worlds.

Among those who took issue with Carlson was Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." In a 2004 appearance on "Crossfire," Stewart criticized Carlson and his co-host, Paul Begala, for their partisan political commentary and accused them of "hurting America." The exchange between Stewart and Carlson went viral and drew widespread attention, with many crediting Stewart with contributing to the eventual cancellation of "Crossfire" later that year.
"We thank him for his service to the network," Fox leadership said.
By Emily Shapiro and Olivia Rubin

TV host Tucker Carlson and Fox News have "agreed to part ways," Fox said in a statement Monday. "We thank him for his service to the network," Fox said in the statement about the top-rated host, which noted that Carlson's last show was on Friday. The network did not provide a reason for Carlson's departure.

The news comes nearly one week after a $787.5 million settlement agreement between the network and Dominion Voting Systems, which had accused Fox of knowingly pushing false conspiracy theories that the voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election in Joe Biden's favor, in what Dominion claims was an effort to combat concerns over declining ratings and viewer retention.
Story by By Jack Queen

(Reuters) - Fox News on Tuesday disposed of one legal threat with its $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, but the network still faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from another voting technology company over its coverage of debunked election-rigging claims.

Dominion accused Fox and its parent company Fox Corp of ruining its business by airing claims that its machines were used to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden and against then-president Donald Trump, a Republican.

Fox and its parent company Fox Corp averted a six-week trial in Delaware Superior Court with the deal, which is half of the $1.6 billion Dominion sought but still by far the largest ever defamation settlement publicly announced by an American media company, according to legal experts.
Story by By Jack Queen

(Reuters) - Fox News on Tuesday disposed of one legal threat with its $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, but the network still faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from another voting technology company over its coverage of debunked election-rigging claims.

Dominion accused Fox and its parent company Fox Corp of ruining its business by airing claims that its machines were used to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden and against then-president Donald Trump, a Republican.

Fox and its parent company Fox Corp averted a six-week trial in Delaware Superior Court with the deal, which is half of the $1.6 billion Dominion sought but still by far the largest ever defamation settlement publicly announced by an American media company, according to legal experts.

Wilmington, Delaware - Fox News avoided one of the highest-profile defamation trials in history by reaching a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday. The extraordinary settlement – one of the largest ever in a defamation case – came on the same day the trial began in Delaware Superior Court.

The jury would have determined whether Fox News acted with malice by deliberately airing false statements about the voting machine maker. Dominion was seeking $1.6 billion in damages. In addition to the monetary damages, the network in a statement also conceded that it aired falsehoods about the Denver-based company after the 2020 presidential election. "We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," Fox News said in the statement.
Agreement reached after the jury was sworn in on Tuesday morning after lengthy delay to start of opening statements
Sam Levine and Kira Lerner in Wilmington, Delaware

Fox and the voting equipment company Dominion reached a $787.5m settlement in a closely watched defamation lawsuit, ending a dispute over whether the network and its parent company knowingly broadcast false and outlandish allegations that Dominion was involved in a plot to steal the 2020 election. The settlement comes after the jury was sworn in on Tuesday morning and after a lengthy, unexpected delay to the start of opening statements.

“The parties have resolved their case,” Judge Eric Davis told jurors on Tuesday afternoon before excusing them from the courtroom. Opening statements were scheduled to start on Tuesday after a lunch break, but the judge and jurors did not return to the room until close to 4pm. During the more than two-hour delay, attorneys huddled and left the courtroom to convene in adjacent meeting rooms.
Kevin Breuninger, Lillian Rizzo

WILMINGTON, Del. — Opening arguments are beginning Tuesday in the Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit accusing Fox News of spreading the damaging falsehood that the company rigged the 2020 election. The civil trial in Delaware Superior Court arrives more than two years after Dominion, which sells voting machines and election software, first accused Fox of knowingly airing lies about the company in order to boost its ratings.

The network “intentionally and falsely” blamed Dominion for former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden by broadcasting unsubstantiated claims about the company, including that it meddled with vote tallies, Dominion alleged. Fox has maintained that the statements made about Dominion on its air are protected by the First Amendment, which shields the freedoms of speech and press. The network also argued that Dominion’s suit does not establish that the claims were aired with “actual malice,” a requirement to meet the legal standard for defamation.

Jury selection in the case wrapped up late Tuesday morning, but not without its fireworks. Just as the 12-member jury and 12 alternates were set and about to receive instructions, an alternate juror interrupted. “Sir, I can’t do this. I’ve been up all night. I can’t do this,” the alternate juror said, shaking his head.
Story by Connor Surmonte

Fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg recently claimed she found additional evidence relevant to Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the embattled news network, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In a striking development to come on the same day the Fox-Dominion trial kicked off in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday, Grossberg revealed she discovered a cellphone with at least two “secret recordings” from the time of the 2020 presidential election.

According to NBC News, which reviewed the recordings found on Grossberg’s phone, one recording contains a November 7, 2020 phone interview Fox News host Maria Bartiromo had with Senator Ted Cruz while another contains a November 13, 2020 interview with two sources claiming to have evidence of Dominion voter fraud.

“Abby Grossberg stands ready to do her part to ensure that justice is done; that those who are licensed and obligated to tell the truth, and guide others to the truth, do just that,” Grossberg’s lawyer, Gerry Filippatos, said in a statement Tuesday.
Is Tucker Carlson working for Putin or just a useful idiot?

Story by Connor Surmonte

Tucker Carlson directly contradicted Fox News this week by falsely claiming American soldiers are currently fighting Russian troops in Ukraine, RadarOnline.com has learned. Carlson made the claims on Thursday night shortly after the FBI arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified intelligence documents connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But while part of the leaked classified material indicated U.S. service members are present in Ukraine amid the ongoing war, White House spokesman John Kirby released a statement clarifying that the U.S. service members are only there as part of an “embassy defense attaché.” “US troops are not fighting in Ukraine,” wrote Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich following a press conference held by Kirby.
Is Tucker Carlson working for Putin or just a useful idiot?

Story by nmusumeci@insider.com (Natalie Musumeci)

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday rattled off seemingly made-up casualty figures from "leaked intelligence" to argue that Ukraine is losing the war with Russia. But the actual leaked classified United States documents show that more than twice as many Russian soldiers as Ukrainian troops have been killed.

During his "Tucker Carlson Tonight" broadcast, the Fox News star said that the leaked documents show "Ukraine is in fact losing the war." "Seven Ukrainians are being killed for every Russian," Carlson claimed, without citing his direct source. A recently leaked US intelligence document paints a very different picture of the casualties in the war.
Story by Rafi Schwartz

Fox News is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Fox News sits largely comfortably atop the crowd of cable news outlets when it comes to the sheer number of eyeballs aimed at television screens on any given day. That it has become an influencer of conservative sentiment perhaps even surpassing its role as a chronicler of conservative news is a sign of just how uniquely powerful Fox is within right-leaning media.

Nevertheless, Fox has been struggling of late — not in viewership, but under the looming shadow of a potentially seismic ruling for Dominion Voting Systems in that company's defamation lawsuit against the network over having aired false "stolen election" conspiracy theories in 2020. Beyond the monetary threat that suit represents, Dominion's case against Fox has opened the door for a host of separate but interrelated dangers to the network. And this week, several of those threads converged to deliver Fox one of its most existentially challenging stretches in recent memory.

The lawsuit is coming from inside the house.
On Tuesday, Fox Corp. shareholder Robert Schwarz filed a derivative action lawsuit in Delaware against network owner Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan, and several other members of the Fox Corp. board. In it, Schwarz claimed that by broadcasting former President Donald Trump's various 2020 election lies, Fox News had "exposed the Company to public ridicule and negatively impacted the credibility of Fox News as a media organization that is supposed to accurately report newsworthy events," according to the text of the suit obtained by NBC News.
Story by Jennifer Bowers Bahneyo

A man whose television was continuously tuned to Fox News, and who knew “next to nothing” about the 2020 election, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for his part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Patrick McCaughey III participated in “some of the worst violence inside the lower west tunnel,” crushing an officer with a police shield, NBC News reported Friday. The prosecutor had asked for a hefty 15-year sentence, which would have been the longest term given to a Capitol rioter. The judge in the case, Trevor McFadden, is a Trump appointee.

McCaughey’s sister wrote a letter to the court explaining that her brother had been “radicalized” by their father, who only played “Fox News and Turner Classic Movies” in their home. She wrote that McCaughey’s “entire livelihood depended on having a good relationship with my father.” “I believe my father’s dedication to ignoring all issues that did not interest him, and his tendency to cut out those who disagreed with him forced my brother to adapt to his interests once again and therefore, radicalize himself too,” she wrote.
Opinion by Jarvis DeBerry

Few people are looking better right now than Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, one of two Black Democratic legislators who were reinstated to the state House days after Republican colleagues expelled him for standing with residents demanding gun control legislation. And few people are looking worse than those Tennessee Republicans who in their attempt to heap shame upon two young Black men brought shame upon themselves. Those Republicans also lost the ground they were trying to defend. Tuesday, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order strengthening background checks in the state.
Opinion by Tommy Christopher

Fox News host Tucker Carlson fired off a rant about expelled-then-reinstated Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson that was so racist, his critics declared it “Shockingly racist even for Tucker Carlson” — a mighty big claim.

Rep. Pearson is the Black lawmaker whom the Tennessee House voted to expel along with Rep. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson over a protest calling for gun reform in the wake of the shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School that killed six people. They spared Gloria Johnson, a 60-year-old white woman who participated in the protest. That disparity has been flagged by the Tennessee Three and others as a racist double standard.

On Wednesday, Pearson was reinstated to the legislature, days after Jones, too, was reinstated. Also Wednesday, conservatives continued a collective freakout over the fact that Jones used to not have an afro, and now he has an afro, and he was less militant seven years ago in a student council campaign video than he is now.
Story by Josephine Harvey

Tucker Carlson went on an overtly racist tirade against a Tennessee state lawmaker on Wednesday night, suggesting Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson speaks like a “sharecropper” and got into college only because he’s Black.

Pearson is one of two Black lawmakers recently expelled from the state legislature by the GOP supermajority for joining protesters who chanted in the House chamber in support of gun control following a school shooting that left six people dead in Nashville last month. Pearson was reinstated Wednesday by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in Memphis, and state Rep. Justin Jones was reinstated Monday by Nashville’s Metro Council.

In a Fox News segment attacking Pearson and other Democrats for what he called “mimicking civil rights leaders,” Carlson said Pearson had changed his demeanor over the years from that of a “crypto white kid” into “the “modern incarnation of Martin Luther King Jr. himself.”
Story by Brad Reed

Ajudge on Wednesday said that he would appoint a special master tasked with determining whether Fox News withheld crucial evidence in the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.

CNN reports that Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis on Wednesday repeatedly expressed "exasperation and frustration" with Fox News' attorneys while lawyers representing Dominion delivered a presentation alleging that they did not receive all of the information they should have during the discovery process.

"I am very concerned... that there have been misrepresentations to the court," Davis said. "This is very serious."
Sky Palma

The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News will bar any mention of the Jan.6 Capitol riot, granting a win to the network, The Washington Post reported.
Story by Oliver Darcy

Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from a Venezuelan businessman who had accused the network of making false claims about him and the 2020 election, attorneys for the man and Fox News said Saturday in a court filing. The details of the settlement were not made public.

“This matter has been resolved amicably by both sides,” a Fox News spokesperson said Sunday, declining further comment. Following the 2020 election, former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs had accused the businessman, Majed Khalil, of playing a key role in supposedly rigging the election against Donald Trump. In a tweet calling the 2020 election a “cyber Pearl Harbor,” Dobbs named Khalil as one of four people he wanted his audience to “get familiar with” for committing supposed election fraud.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

The "friend" of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, that has been paying for the Thomas couple to go on lavish trips around the world on his pal's private jet and personal yacht, is also known for collecting Nazi memorabilia. While Republicans have excused it away as ensuring the horrors of history are remembered, the reality is a little more disturbing.

GOP donor Harlan Crow has a yard full of statues of dictators on display. He has a signed portrait of Adolf Hitler and an autographed copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf. One house guest found some of Hitler's linens and place settings hidden away in an upstairs cabinet, hidden away from the public. MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan noted that for the past few weeks, Fox hosts and conservative pundits have collected around the false conspiracy theory that Jewish funder George Soros was behind the prosecution.
Story by Tommy Christopher

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was stunned by a motion in the $1.6 billion Dominion defamation suit that he says is tantamount to an admission of blame by Fox News for the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

On Friday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the host was commenting on the Republican overreach exemplified by Tennessee’s expulsion of two Black lawmakers that he says is fueled in part by things the base hears on Fox News.

Scarborough then went on a tangent about a motion from Fox News to exclude testimony about Jan. 6 on the grounds that “any reference to the Capitol riot will only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict”:
Opinion by Dennis Aftergut & Austin Sarat

Sometimes legal cases provide windows into the most important political, economic, and cultural issues of our time. Dominion Voting Systems' billion-dollar defamation suit against Fox is one such case. On Friday, the Delaware judge who is hearing the case gave the green light for the suit to move forward, rejecting Fox's summary judgment motion seeking to toss it out. That marked a turning point in what is already an historic case.

"The evidence [makes it] CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true," Superior Court Judge Eric Davis wrote in his opinion. To establish Fox's liability under the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case of New York Times v. Sullivan, Dominion must convince a jury that those statements were false, and also that Fox either knew they were false or was reckless in avoiding the truth.
Opinion by Alex Henderson

On Friday, March 31, Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis rejected a motion for summary judgment from attorneys for Fox News — who were hoping to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing cable news outlet. Davis' ruling, much to Fox News' disappointment, means that the civil case will be going to trial.

It remains to be seen how jurors will ultimately rule. Defamation, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, is very difficult to prove. Dominion has an uphill climb in the case, as the company has to prove "actual malice" on Fox News' part. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's.

Nonetheless, Dominion has a mountain of evidence in its case. Lawyers for Dominion are arguing that Fox News defamed the company after the 2020 presidential election by promoting the false, thoroughly debunked, and discredited claim that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the election from then-President Donald Trump. And Dominion has presented, as evidence, actual texts and e-mails from Fox News hosts admitting that Trump attorneys' election fraud claims were total nonsense.
Story by Alex Henderson

It remains to be seen how a civil jury will ultimately rule in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Defamation, under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling of 1964, is extremely difficult to prove. But Dominion has presented, as evidence, an abundance of e-mails and text messages from Fox employees in the hope of convincing jurors that it suffered defamation.
Story by Tom Boggioni

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang on Sunday, Jeremy Peters of the New York Times stated that lawyers for Fox will enter the courtroom where the Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit will be heard with their key defense points already made unavailable.

Reacting to a ruling on Friday that the case will be heard by a jury over Fox's protestations, host Phang stated, "Judge Eric Davis on Friday decimated much of Fox's potential trail defenses, ruling that Fox cannot invoke the neutral report privilege because the evidence does not support that Fox conducted good faith reporting. The judge also blocking Fox from using the fair reporting privilege because the statements made by Fox and its guests were not related to official proceedings."
Story by Sarah Rumpf

A judge just dealt a devastating blow to the Fox media empire in the defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems, denying Fox’s motions for summary judgment in their entirety, and issuing a partial summary judgment in Dominion’s favor that gives them a “W” for key elements needed to prove their legal claims and allowing their $1.6 billion defamation case to proceed to trial.

The lawsuit filed by Dominion accuses Fox News of airing false claims about Dominion’s voting machines related to former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Pre-trial discovery in the litigation has revealed a trove of documents in which Fox’s on-air personalities and top executives exchanged emails and text messages acknowledging Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election, that his claims the election was stolen from him via fraud were unfounded, and lamenting the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. A new trove of documents with previously redacted comments was released Friday.
Story by Adam Klasfeld

In a “rare” ruling, Dominion Voting Systems scored blockbuster victories against Fox News on multiple issues before their upcoming blockbuster trial next month.
Story by Lillian Rizzo

A Delaware judge on Friday said Dominion Voting's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp. and its networks could go to trial in April.
Story by Meaghan Ellis

Anew analysis is shedding light on the behind-the-scenes battle brewing between Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and the network's primetime conservative host Tucker Carlson. Mediaite's Aidan McLaughlin offered a brief overview of the contention between Carlson and Scott.

"Carlson, according to sources inside and outside the network who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, has for years been at odds with Scott, a 26-year Fox News veteran who ascended to the top of the network in the wake of a series of sexual harassment scandals that dethroned Roger Ailes," McLaughlin wrote.

He continued, "Her efforts to maintain control of the network's often divisive coverage have run up against Carlson's penchant for courting controversy, his proud disregard for facts, and apparently unconditional backing from Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, the top executives at Fox News parent company Fox Corporation." McLaughlin also highlighted remarks from insiders with knowledge of the strained relationship between Scott and Carlson.

Fox News' Tucker Carlson is attempting to spin a new conspiracy theory with a tall accusation involving the United States government. During his latest segment of "The Tucker Carlson Show" on Tuesday, the conservative primetime host claimed the U.S. government will be lacing the country's water supply with "SSRIs – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – in an effort to placate an increasingly dissatisfied population," Mediaite reports.

Broadcasting from Rio de Janeiro, Carlson expressed concern about the United States' low fertility rates. On multiple occasions, Carlson has leveled attacks at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over her concerns about having children. In fact, last year, the Fox News host reportedly said claimed: "some liberals are 'offended by fertility and nature and the idea that people reproduce.'” During Tuesday's segment, Carlson revisited the same argument but went a step further this time.
Story by Aaron Blake

Documents revealed in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News suggest that Fox News producer Abby Grossberg was invested in the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. In its defense, Fox has even cited Grossberg’s testimony as evidence that it wasn’t as reckless as Dominion claims. But in a striking turn for the increasingly embattled cable news network, Grossberg is criticizing Fox’s “coverage of the lies against Dominion” and saying her testimony was coerced.

In a federal lawsuit in New York, Grossberg claims Fox discriminated against her on the basis of her gender and that the network is home to rampant misogyny. But more relevant for Fox’s current predicament is what Grossberg says about Dominion’s lawsuit in both the New York filing and a defamation lawsuit brought in Delaware. “Quite simply, Fox’s legal team coerced, intimidated, and misinformed Ms. Grossberg as they ‘prepared’ her in connection with deposition testimony she gave in the pending defamation case brought by the company known as Dominion … ,” Grossberg’s attorneys say in the New York case.

Grossberg’s attorneys add in the Delaware case that the Fox lawyers “intentionally coerced and intimidated Ms. Grossberg into providing testimony that placed her reputation in a false light” and “did so intentionally to deflect blame and liability in the Dominion/Fox Lawsuit away from Fox News and male on-air hosts and executives.”
Story by Brad Reed

CNN reports that an "explosive" new lawsuit filed by Fox News producer Abby Grossberg has thrown a wrench into its defense against a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems. According to CNN, Grossberg alleges that she was coached by Fox News attorneys to give misleading testimony under oath in order to shift blame away from the network for airing multiple false claims about Dominion.

"Fox News Attorneys acted as agents and at the behest of Fox News to misleadingly coach, manipulate, and coerce Ms. Grossberg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony, which answers were clearly to her reputational detriment but greatly benefitted Fox News," the lawsuit states.

The complaint also documents alleged misogynistic and anti-Semitic behavior by Fox News employees that Grossberg experienced as a producer for both Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and primetime Fox News star Tucker Carlson.

Before hosting a Fox News show, Tucker Carlson warned against "conspiracy theories.” Now, Mr. Carlson is involved in a case alleging lies, where some of the most damning evidence comes from Fox hosts including Carlson. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on how Carlson’s history is boomeranging in this case and why it exposes a wider crisis in conservative media.
Story by Brandon Gage

The exposure of damning communications between Fox News host Tucker Carlson, producers, corporate bigwigs, other anchors, and staffers at the network regarding their true feelings toward ex-President Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election has exposed a vast collaboration to dupe Fox's audience into believing what its employees knew to be utter rubbish. On Monday's edition of Out Front, CNN host Erin Burnett and correspondent Oliver Darcy discussed what the latest batch of private discussions divulges about Fox and its coverage of Trump.

"Even more Fox News texts coming to light from that Dominion defamation lawsuit challenging the right-wing channel for pushings lies that Dominion claims were 'good for Fox's business.' So this time it's an exchange between a Fox executive and a former producer for one of its biggest stars, Tucker Carlson. So let's bring in CNN's senior media reporter Oliver Darcy. So, Oliver, you have found a fascinating exchange and a very illuminating exchange. What does it reveal?" Burnett asked Darcy.
Thousands of pages of documents in a recent lawsuit show that Fox News' top executives sometimes were actively involved in politics rather than simply reporting or offering opinions on it
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press

NEW YORK -- In May 2018, the nation's top Republicans needed help. So they called on the founder of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were trying to stop West Virginia Republicans from nominating Don Blankenship, who had been convicted of violating mine safety standards during a lethal accident in one of his coal mines, to challenge the state's incumbent senator, Democrat Joe Manchin.

“Both Trump and McConnell are appealing for help to beat unelectable former mine owner who served time,” Murdoch wrote to executives at Fox News, according to court records released this week. “Anything during day helpful, but Sean (Hannity) and Laura (Ingraham) dumping on him hard might save the day.”

Murdoch's prodding, revealed in court documents that are part of a defamation lawsuit by a voting systems company, is one example showing how Fox became actively involved in politics instead of simply reporting or offering opinions about it. The revelations pose a challenge to the credibility of the most watched cable news network in the U.S. at the outset of a new election season in which Trump is again a leading player, having declared his third run for the White House.
Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY

It has been a bad couple of weeks for the fabulists at Fox News. Text messages made public as part of a lawsuit against the network have shown the disregard many popular hosts have for their audience as well as the ease with which they say things they don’t believe are true.

It’s clear from court filings in the Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox news that the network cares only about making money, and knows its money comes from telling viewers exactly what they want to hear. Supporting former President Donald Trump and parroting his lies about the 2020 election being rigged was good for the bottom line, so the network and hosts like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson responded in kind.
It is not just Fox news right wing medai is fake news

Opinion by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency

From its creation by Rupert Murdoch in 1996, Fox News has always been considered an outsider. Late-night comics mocked its initial slogan “Fair and Balanced” as “Neither.” But most people were willing to accept Fox for what it was: a right-wing television network, the conservatives’ answer to left-leaning MSNBC, with CNN somewhere in the middle.

In fact, in 2009, when the Obama administration announced they were going to “treat them the way we would treat an opponent” and deny Fox News the same access other news outlets enjoyed, members of the White House press corps, myself included, protested. Fox might lean right, we argued, but they were still fellow journalists reporting the news, and deserved the same access enjoyed by CBS, ABC, CNN and other networks.

But that was then, and this is now. Over the years, Fox devolved into ever more of a right-wing voicebox, in both commentary and news gathering, until, during the Trump years, they became nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee.

Yet now we know it’s even worse than we thought. Documents released in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox show that Fox News was not only repeatedly broadcasting Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about actually winning the 2020 election, they were also trumpeting their own “Big Lie” about rigged voting machines.
Story by Josh Dickey

Tucker Carlson this week said emphatically that "everyone should have access" to the more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage shared with his Fox News show, then spoke at length about how - though he is "the easiest person to reach" - no "working journalist" has bothered to ask for a look. Well, TheWrap has been trying for four full business days. Neither have we seen the footage, nor has anyone penned so much as a polite "We'll get back to you." Full crickets.

"I personally think everyone should have access to [the tapes]," Carlson chirped Thursday on "The Glenn Beck Program," telling the namesake host: "I'll put you in touch with my producer who's been dealing with the speaker's office." Good luck with that, Glenn Beck. TheWrap sent a formal Freedom of Information Act request to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, on Tuesday. It has, as of Friday, been left unanswered.
Story by Brandon Gage

Media Matters for America senior fellow Matt Gertz added significant credence to critiques of Fox News that the network exists to indulge its audience's confirmation biases and personal beliefs rather than inform. Gertz shared his frank assessment with The Bulwark Editor-in-Chief Charlie Sykes on Wednesday's edition of the conservative publication's podcast during a discussion regarding Fox hosts' roles in peddling former President Donald Trump's bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

"I wanted to just drill down a little bit on this. Why is this happening? And I have several different layers to this question. Why is Fox News doing this? Now when they are faced with a billion-dollar-plus lawsuit for their lies about the election. The week after we had this incredible embarrassment of riches from the document dumped showing the text messages and the emails, the hypocrisy, the duplicity, the dishonesty. Why is Tucker Carlson doubling down on this? And why has Fox News letting him?" Sykes wondered.
Story by Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS | NEW YORK — In May 2018, the nation’s top Republicans needed help. So they called on the founder of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were trying to stop West Virginia Republicans from nominating Don Blankenship, who had been convicted of violating mine safety standards during a lethal accident in one of his coal mines, to challenge the state’s incumbent senator, Democrat Joe Manchin.

“Both Trump and McConnell are appealing for help to beat unelectable former mine owner who served time,” Murdoch wrote to executives at Fox News, according to court records released this week. “Anything during day helpful, but Sean (Hannity) and Laura (Ingraham) dumping on him hard might save the day.”

Murdoch’s prodding, revealed in court documents that are part of a defamation lawsuit by a voting systems company, is one example showing how Fox became actively involved in politics instead of simply reporting or offering opinions about it. The revelations pose a challenge to the credibility of the most watched cable news network in the U.S. at the outset of a new election season in which Trump is again a leading player, having declared his third run for the White House.
Opinion by Jake Whitney, Progressive Perspectives

The newly released private messages of Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and others prove what many on the left have argued for years: that Fox is an entertainment network, not a news network.

The text messages and depositions, revealed in a Feb. 16 legal filing, unequivocally show that the network lied to its viewers for better ratings. What’s more, the gulf between what Fox stars said privately and what they broadcast out adds to the growing evidence that the on-air personas of many right-wing stars are largely an act.

The messages were made public in a court filing by Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit. Dominion claims that Fox committed libel by airing segments centered around the company rigging the election for President Joe Biden. The filings expose two key things: that Fox executives knew Donald Trump’s stolen election claims were false while the network continued to push those claims; and they knew that reporting the truth would hurt ratings.
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