Sean Hannity. Tucker Carlson. Steve Doocy. Maria Bartiromo. Lou Dobbs. Jeanine Pirro. Shepard Smith. They’re among the parade of current and former Fox hosts who have been called for a deposition in the ongoing libel litigation initiated by Dominion Voting Systems, which claims in a $1.7 billion lawsuit that Fox “intentionally and falsely” blamed Dominion for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.
Dominion provided voting technologies to dozens of states during the election, and the company alleges Fox “endorsed, repeated, and broadcast…verifiably false yet devastating lies” about its products and services, among them that Dominion committed election fraud; that its software manipulated vote counts; that it’s owned by a firm founded in Venezuela to rig elections for the late Hugo Chávez; and that it paid kickbacks to government officials who used its technologies.
These statements “recklessly disregarded the truth,” Dominion says, “deeply damaged [its] once-thriving business”—and even caused employees to be harassed or to receive death threats, according to the complaint. Some of the statements were made by Fox hosts and others by guests, encouraged (or at least not discouraged) by the hosts, the suit claims.
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