It is November 2020. Joe Biden has just won the presidential election in the United States. Opponents of Donald Trump refuse to acknowledge that the race is over, and several TV hosts are jumping on. One of the people blamed for the Fox channel’s programs is the company that made the voting machines, Dominion Voting Systems. More than two years later, the company has taken Fox News to court. Rupert Murdoch heads the Fox Corporation. Photo: Mike Segar / Reuters A number of internal communications have been published which show that both managers and TV hosts did not believe the claims themselves, even if they spoke about them publicly. Among them was the head of the Fox Corporation, Rupert Murdock, who is said to have expressed his disbelief at the conspiracy theories as they circulated on the channel. For example, he is said to have told another Fox executive: “Terrible things that are harmful to everyone, I fear.” He wasn’t the only one. This conversation is supposed to be between CEO Raj Shah and producer Alex Pfeiffer: November 22RSRaj Shah: This thing here is completely wild right now. So many people who say that Powell is clearly talking nonsense. APA Alex Pfeiffer: She’s a fucking lunatic. The then Minister of Justice was clear that the allegations were not true, and has since said that Trump lost his grip on the truth when he lost the election. On screen, TV hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham nevertheless embraced the conspiracy theories. When the camera was switched off, the matter was different. This is what one of their conversations should have looked like, according to the document: November 18, 2020 TCTucker Carlson: Sidney Powell is lying, by the way. I caught her in it. It’s insane. LILaura Ingraham: Sidney is completely crazy. No one wants to work with her. Ditto with Rudy. Sidney Powell is a lawyer and Trump supporter. She sued several American states where Biden had won, hoping to prevent the results from being approved. She does not wish to comment on the case to American media. Sidney Powell is a former lawyer for Donald Trump. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Being sued by voting machine manufacturer Court documents have emerged through a defamation lawsuit. Much is at stake for Fox, which is the TV channel with the most viewers in the USA. The voting machine company has sued for defamation, and wants 1.6 billion dollars from the media giant. This corresponds to around NOK 16 billion. The document contains comments and quotations that reveal that producers, managers and profiles in the media house knew that the allegations of election fraud were false. Dominion Voting Systems made many of the voting machines that were used during the 2020 election. The picture is from Atlanta in the USA. Photo: John Bazemore / AP The voting machine company has been exposed to strong criticism from conspiracy theorists who falsely claimed that President Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2020. The claims included, among other things, that the voting machines were rigged against Trump, and that the company had secret owners in Venezuela. After the election, even Fox’s internal fact-checkers concluded that the claims were completely baseless, and that “there is no evidence of widespread election fraud”, according to NBC. In the lawsuit, the company believes that the TV channel intentionally spread false claims that “recklessly ignored the truth and damaged Dominion’s reputation” in order to get the most viewers possible. – An attack on the free press Fox submitted a counterclaim on Thursday, where they wrote that the voting machine company has no proof of its high compensation claim. They claim that Trump’s allegations were “undoubtedly newsworthy”, and believe that the lawsuit takes content from the coverage out of the context in which it was produced. – Fox News’ viewers knew that what was reported were allegations, the counterclaim states. – The lawsuit is an attack on the free press. A lot of noise and confusion is being made by Dominion and the opportunistic owners, but the core of this case is still freedom of the press and freedom of speech. TV host Tucker Carlson (left) with Donald Trump at a golf tournament in 2022. Photo: Seth Wenig / AP Fox News shocked Trump’s campaign by being the first in the media to announce that Biden had won the election in Arizona. The prognosis was then that he was going to be the next US president. Fox’s ratings plunged after the election was over and the sitting president refused to step down, write the New York Times. According to the newspaper, many of the channel’s most popular profiles started talking publicly about conspiracy theories involving the company’s machines, and that it was these who refused Trump a new presidential term.
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