Fox News is having a banner day in multiple courts.
This afternoon it argued its motion for summary judgment in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit before Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis. That court already denied the network’s motion to dismiss back in 2021, finding that “Fox possessed countervailing evidence of election fraud from the Department of Justice, election experts, and Dominion at the time” and “despite this evidence, Fox continued to publish its allegations against Dominion.” That kicked off a year of discovery, leading to the avalanche of embarrassing disclosures, not just about Fox’s knowledge that the election fraud claims it was broadcasting were nonsense, but, as Dominion alleges, that it continued to air them to placate viewers who preferred to consume propaganda rather than actual news.
It’s highly unlikely that the court will grant summary judgment to either side, but every appearance and filing presents yet another opportunity for Dominion to dump more embarrassing discovery excerpts on the public docket. Yesterday we got yet more deposition testimony confirming the network’s desperate panic over fear of losing marketshare to Newsmax and OAN, outlets which relentlessly flogged Trump’s false election fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Fox COO Joe Dorrego confirmed under oath that Fox executives were both dependent on MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for ad revenue and aware of his propensity to “go off the rails”...
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