According to charges that they spread false information about election fraud and tarnished Dominion Voting’s image by appearing on-air with friends and supporters of Donald Trump, Fox News anchors Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, and Lou Dobbs have all been fired.
In March of last year, Dominion sued Fox News, claiming the network knowingly propagated a false narrative that its voting machines and counting systems were manipulated in favour of Vice President Joe Biden.
Every news station in the globe covered the issue, but according to Dominion, Fox took an especially favourable stance toward Trump’s assertions.
Dobbs was deposed yesterday, while Carlson and Pirro were deposed last week. Maria Bartiromo will be questioned the next week, while Hannity will be questioned today.
The defence team for Dominion asserts that even if they didn’t actively promote the concept that the election was rigged, they did so by allowing Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell to discuss it live on air.
Fox is defending the case and has made many attempts to get it dismissed, arguing that the journalists were just carrying out their duties and reporting on the allegations of election fraud like any other news organisations.
Prior to Dominion’s instances, Fox’s presenters had expressed doubt about Trump’s election claims and criticism of his failure to recognise the results.
Next Monday, Maria Bartiromo will be dismissed for her reporting on the allegations of election fraud.
According to Dominion’s legal team, it alienated supporters of Trump.
Dominion believes that programme hosts made a purposeful U-turn in their coverage of the electoral fraud allegations in an effort to win back those viewers.
The hosts were aware that it was untrue, according to evidence provided by Dominion’s attorneys.
They claim that emails and messages reveal the journalists and producers discussing it off-air with a lot more suspicion than they ever did on-air as the basis for their claims.
According to Fox, those emails and texts have been misinterpreted, according to DailyMail.com.
“The core of the First Amendment resides in Pirro’s reportage of these problems of public concern and general relevance,” they said.
The lawsuit, which seeks $1.6 billion to repair Dominion’s image, does not identify any of the individual hosts as defendants.
Pirro’s lawyers argued that she shouldn’t be held accountable for “doing what she does best” in response to a second complaint brought by Smartmatic, whose software is utilised in the Dominion machines.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the voting machines were rigged to tally votes for him as votes for Biden, and the voting business argues that it will never be able to shake off that stain.
Fox created a contrived election fraud plot that portrayed the then-unknown Dominion voting system manufacturer as the antagonist.
Following the November 3, 2020, presidential election, viewers started to switch to media channels that supported the false narrative that President Trump lost the election due to widespread fraud.
Because Fox was the first network to proclaim that Trump lost Arizona, they felt that the network provided inadequate support for the president.
Fox deliberately and erroneously blamed Dominion for President Trump’s defeat by manipulating the election in an effort to win back viewers, including the president himself.
A number of broadcasts in November 2020 when pro-Trump guests were interviewed are included in the complaint.
Sidney Powell, an attorney for Trump, was a frequent guest of Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro.
Both Rudy Giuliani and Mike Tindall, the CEO of MyPillow and a fervent supporter and fundraiser to Trump, were subjected to interviews.
According to the complaint, they “repeatedly propagated defamatory lies about Dominion, including by airing and rebroadcasting the falsehoods of its on-air personalities Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, and their handpicked guests.”
Dominion is suing a number of networks in addition to Fox.
Along with Giuliani, Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, and OAN (One America Network), the Colorado-based business has also filed a lawsuit against them.
The matter will go forward with a trial date scheduled for April of 2019.
Fox has recruited young trial lawyer Dan Webb, who successfully prosecuted actor Jussie Smollett for making up the details of his racial hate crime assault for the police.
“There are very few occurrences in the past 50 years in this nation that I believe are more newsworthy,” he said to The Washington Post, “than our president accusing a voting machine firm of stealing votes and upending our whole Democratic system.”