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    Fox News knew Trump’s voter fraud claims were ‘total BS,’ Dominion says

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2023 6 minutes
    An image of former president Donald Trump phoning into a Fox News interview is shown on a screen during the fifth hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on June 23, 2022, in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C..

    Dominion Voting Systems filed a motion for summary judgment Thursday in its $1.6-billion defamation case against Fox News, claiming Rupert Murdoch’s network knowingly pushed a false narrative based on former President Donald Trump’s bogus claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

    “From the top down, Fox knew ‘the Dominion stuff’ was ‘total bs,’” the brief stated. “Yet despite knowing the truth — or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth — Fox spread and endorsed these ‘outlandish voter fraud claims’ about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as ‘crazy,’ ‘absurd,’ and ‘shockingly reckless.’”

    The motion based on depositions and evidence uncovered in discovery — and the response filed by Fox News — lays out the legal showdown, which could be a devastating blow to Murdoch’s empire. The document goes into granular detail to claim the network panicked over viewer reaction to Trump’s loss, with the truth at times taking a back seat to concern over declining ratings. It’s likely

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