Fox News employees, up and down the corporate ladder, did not believe that the 2020 election was rigged, despite claims that were later broadcast on the network implicating voting technology company Smartmatic in a broader conspiracy to throw the election for Joe Biden, according to newly unsealed documents.

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“This case presents unprecedented evidence of actual malice — admissions of disbelief from dozens of individuals across every level of Fox’s organization from the show runners to the Chairman himself,” lawyers for Smartmatic wrote in a filing as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, citing company co-founder Rupert Murdoch. “No court has ever encountered such a mountain of confessions from those responsible for publishing defamatory statements.”

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