“Fox took a small flame and turned it into a forest fire.” With Fox’s global platform, an audience of hundreds of millions, and the inevitable and extensive republication and dissemination of the falsehoods through social media, these lies deeply damaged Dominion’s once-thriving business,” the 441-page lawsuit says. “As the dominant media company among those viewers dissatisfied with the election results, Fox gave these fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved. Dominion argues that the First Amendment does not allow media outlets to broadcast conspiracy theories they know are false. Trump has also been going after them in messages on his Truth Social platform.įox News has said it was 'proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism,' and it argued that the Dominion lawsuit is designed only to garner headlines. Steve Bannon, a former White House official and longtime Trump ally, has in essence declared war on Murdoch and Fox. Tensions between Trump and Fox News have escalated in recent months as more revelations have come out and as Murdoch's media empire has featured Florida Gov. We welcome all scrutiny of our evidence because it all leads to the same place - Fox knowingly spread lies causing enormous damage to an American company,' a Dominion spokesman told NBC News.

“The emails, texts, and deposition testimony speak for themselves. Smaller snippets of the exchanges were referred to in two Dominion briefs made public in a Delaware court last month, when Dominion sought a summary judgment ruling from the judge and opposed Fox News' motion asking the judge to dismiss the case.ĭominion's briefs previously revealed that top figures at Fox News privately blasted election fraud claims as 'crazy' and 'insane,' even as the network aired them on television, and that top boss Murdoch considered some of Trump's voter fraud claims to be “ bulls- and damaging” yet acknowledged in a deposition that he did nothing to rein in hosts who were promoting the bogus claims in the days after the 2020 election. “Thanks to today’s filings, Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press,' the statement said. '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.”

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