The concerns about Trump’s election claims extended to the top levels of Fox’s leadership, the filing shows. 12, after Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich published a tweet disputing claims from Trump about Dominion, outlining how elections officials had determined the company did not engage in voter fraud, Carlson sent Hannity the reporter’s tweet saying, “Please get her fired … It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. executive, wrote to network leadership after the episode, saying Cavuto’s action represented a “brand threat,” according to the filing. 9, as the network was broadcasting a White House press briefing during which press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was making false statements about voter fraud, host Neil Cavuto cut away, telling his viewers he could not “in good countenance continue to show you this.” 21, Carlson texted an unidentified Fox employee that it was “shockingly reckless” of Powell to claim the election had been stolen from Trump.Īttempts to fact-check claims of voter fraud coming from Trump and his associates on air also did not sit well with some leaders at the network, the filing shows. Our viewers are good people and they believe it.” Ditto with Rudy ,” Ingraham responded.Ĭarlson wrote back, “it’s unbelievably offensive to me. It’s insane,” Carlson wrote in one text message to Ingraham, the court filing shows.
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Top network hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham in text messages referred to the voter fraud allegations made by Trump and his associates as “insane” while network leadership debated how rebuking those claims on the air might hurt the conservative media giant’s reputation with its viewers, according to the filing.Ĭorrespondence and testimony from top talent and executives at the network were made public as part of an ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News and its parent company, seeking $1.6 billion in damages, for what the voting software company says was Fox’s broadcasting of information about it that the network’s leaders knew were false.įox, in legal filings and public statements, has countered that the president’s allegations about voter fraud were newsworthy but has, so far, unsuccessfully moved to have the case dismissed on First Amendment grounds.
A court filing made public late Thursday shows top executives at Fox News and leading hosts on the network privately dismissing former President Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the days that followed the 2020 presidential election, expressing worry about how fact checks of the president’s assertions might upset the network’s audience.
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