Portside - Court documents show that Fox News hosts and executives never believed the conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that they were spreading.Text messages and deposition excerpts show that hosts including Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham knew the election conspiracies were false and that Donald Trump’s lawyers weren’t credible, but they spread the conspiracies and invited the lawyers on air anyway. Carlson, who has repeatedly fawned over Trump on his show, even texted someone he was looking forward to ignoring Trump. “I hate him passionately,” Carlson said of the former president.
Fox owner Rupert Murdoch
admitted under oath that he knew his media organization was spreading
lies, but he continued to let hosts spout falsehoods and have Trump team
members on as guests. A Fox News producer sued
the company, alleging executives let the lies stand because they were
good for business and coerced her into giving misleading testimony in
the Dominion lawsuit. But in a statement released after the decision was made
to settle, Fox said they “acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding
certain claims about Dominion to be false.”
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