by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
This past Thursday Dominion Voting Systems, a company that sells voting software and hardware, such as voting machines, to government entities, filed a 178-page legal brief in its 1.6 billion dollar defamation suit against Fox News, a suit in which Dominion is claiming that Fox accused it of helping to cheat Donald Trump out of a win in the 2020 election against Joe Biden.
In that legal brief Dominion stated that Fox knew “from the top down” that their news coverage trying to link Dominion to voter fraud was “total bs.” To highlight its case against Fox, Dominion produced excerpts from text messages and depositions which had been generated by executives and others from Fox News. The defamation suit had gotten underway in March of 2021 – roughly two months after Joe Biden’s inauguration as President – and has now been in-process for nearly two years.
Those messages shared among Fox News personalities as well as other members of the Fox organization showed that certain stars of the Fox News network fully understood that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election shortly after its conclusion, and that some of those stars (including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham) commented among themselves about Trump's team losing the election - but failed to share any of that information with their viewers.
In its legal brief Dominion Voting Systems suggested that Fox was fearful of losing viewers to rival Newsmax if Fox failed to support the election denialism being generated by the Trump team.
Now, as this legal case heads toward a conclusion, the extent to which Fox created and filtered the news is becoming evident, and it looks as though the injured party, in this case Dominion Voting Systems, will soon be due a payout - and that payout looks to be hefty and well deserved!
Those messages shared among Fox News personalities as well as other members of the Fox organization showed that certain stars of the Fox News network fully understood that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election shortly after its conclusion, and that some of those stars (including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham) commented among themselves about Trump's team losing the election - but failed to share any of that information with their viewers.
In its legal brief Dominion Voting Systems suggested that Fox was fearful of losing viewers to rival Newsmax if Fox failed to support the election denialism being generated by the Trump team.
Usually it's the poultry that gets plucked - but not always. Fox News appears set to lose a big chunk of its plumage to a company that it defamed as it tried - unsuccessfully - to keep Team Trump happy.
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