The most powerful figures at Fox News privately raised grave doubts about the 2020 election conspiracy theories they repeatedly amplified, according to a Thursday court filing in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage.
The most powerful figures at Fox News privately raised grave doubts about the election conspiracy theories they repeatedly amplified in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, according to a Thursday court filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage.
And so fears of lost viewers and lost profits led Fox’s most powerful figures to indulge baseless claims of conspiracy and fraud and, in some cases, move to sideline news reporters who took basic steps to fact-check claims made by the likes of pro-Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on the network’s airwaves.
Emails and texts in the filing suggest that Fox’s top executives and stars were less worried about factual accuracy than about ratings crashing after viewers who bought into Trump’s election lies began to seek out different channels that would support their biases. On Nov. 9, 2020, host Neil Cavuto cut away from White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany as she made unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election. “Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue to show you this,” Cavuto said on the air. For this, Fox Corp. Senior VP Raj Shah labeled Cavuto a “brand threat” in a message to top corporate brass.
Fox host Maria Bartiromo, who agreed to have Powell on her show after reading this email, never told viewers about the source of Powell’s claim. As Fox’s then-managing editor in Washington Bill Sammon said of the network’s coverage at the time: “It’s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things.”“the most piercing look at the internal goings-on at Fox News in its quarter-century history.” But will Dominion, which is seeking $1.
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