Dominion Voting Systems had alleged that Fox’s hosts and executives actively promoted and broadcasted false claims and conspiracy theories about Dominion’s voting machines rigging the 2020 election, which harmed the company.
, lawyers for Dominion alleged that Fox hosts and executives knew that the claims made about the voting machines were untrue, and argued that Fox “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process.
Fox maintained that “Fox News fulfilled its commitment to inform fully and comment fairly,” adding that, “Some hosts viewed the President’s claims skeptically; others viewed them hopefully; all recognized them as profoundly newsworthy.” If the trial, which was expected to last six weeks, had gone ahead, it would have been up to a jury of 12 people in Delaware to decide whether Fox was financially liable for broadcasting the false claims about the voting machines. , Fox hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Executive Chair Rupert Murdoch were among those expected to testify. Many also believed that former host Lou Dobbs would also have taken the stand.
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