To fight defamation suit, Fox News cites election conspiracy theories

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Facing a billion-dollar lawsuit over its airing of conspiracy theories that a voting machine company helped rig the 2020 presidential election, Fox News is trying to argue that the false claims were not so wildly improbable.

its First Amendment rights to share its newsgathering activities, saying it merely reported on fraud allegations raised by Donald Trump and his allies rather than endorsed them.

Erin Murphy, an attorney representing Fox News in the Dominion case, described the references to conspiracy theories that percolated in the wake of the election as a secondary defense should Fox’s First Amendment claims fail — as many“It’s not an effort to prove that the ultimate allegations they were talking about are true,” Murphy said. “It’s more that it goes directly to that question of putting yourself in the state of mind of people who are hearing these allegations in early November 2020.

“Just as Fox News hosts did not take the President’s claims at face value, they did not take Dominion’s denials at face value either,” attorneys for Fox wrote.In their filings, Fox’s attorneys emphasize that electronic voting machines are hackable and have long been controversial for that reason.

 

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Election Official went on You Tube Bragging on How easy it was to Adjudicate Votes Literally CHANGE those Votes.Not conspiracy Theories Came right out Her Mouth laughing Bragging about it No more Machines.Use Paper Ballots Hand Counts Ink pens Voter ID prove American Citizenship

Russia collusion, Hunter laptop, Covid, censorship, etc. lies, lies, lies

EP always wrong

I wonder how many lawsuits coming your way?

I don't know what Murdochs done, or talking about - don't care. I do know that 80,000,000 of your friends & family will NEVER BELIEVE that CH0M0 JOE got MORE VOTES than OBAMA, from the basement no less. 😃🤪🤣🤣🤣 It's intellectually insulting.

I hope they subpoena the machines for inspection in discovery

99.9% of conspiracies in the last 3 years turned out to be true. There's massive voter fraud and election fraud

Because it fucking happened.

WAPO & every Democrat & Left Wing Fake News media said it was a conspiracy to claim COVID occurred as a result of a lab leak in Wuhan. They were WRONG. They’re also WRONG to claim Biden won the 2020 elections

yuh, they were so improbable that every single court, nationwide, threw that💩out... FoxNewsLies

The truth will come to light. It always finds a way. No matter how much our Government tries to hide.

If you can sue for fake news then MSNBC ABC CBS and CNN will all be sued

Of course. Fox is a horrible injustice to us all. 1.5 billion is not enough. This lying has gone on for years. Usually they are lying about Democrats. Hillary should have sued them and Trump.

Pluck the beam from your own eye.

Wait, how many so-called ' conspiracy theories' have actually ended up being true? Hmmmm I bet this one is true also. 👍🏻

Fox News violated FCC regulations by broadcasting lies knowingly that would do harm to our country for the sole intent to push up their stock prices and profits all for greed. Fox news must be permanently shut down and permanently lose their FCC licensing!

FOX believes ardently in PT Barnum.

Rupert Murdoch saying it was the 'news' hosts Hannity, etc., endorsing the election lies, not Fox News, is akin to tobacco company CEOs in the '60s through the '90s pretending it was just a few ad men responsible for lying about cigarettes & lung cancer, not the corporations.

I'd trust Fox News more than I would WaPo. HANDS DOWN!

I have evidence that it was rigged .

The name dominion Says it all . They are rigging the election with help from gov officials . Cia

This goose has been in the oven 3 hours already

You guys were wrong about COVId and the hunter Biden laptop. How much are those lies worth?

“We did not knowingly spread false conspiracies! By the way - have you heard this one? Some people are saying it might be believable….”

In the past, they argued that they shouldn't be held accountable because no reasonable person would believe what they said... they were entertainment. Now, they have flipped the argument, saying that it wasn't so improbable. They are just straight-up, opportunistic liars.

Yeah, keeping Dominion's own people from appearing on its shows to make sure they couldn't confuse the viewers with, you know, *facts* just *totally* proves Fox was just reporting

I haven't read the source docs but I am pretty sure you're lying. Past is prologue imprettysureyourelying

Even though they knew the claims were false. Right.

Except there’s no actual evidence.

Some things take time to come out.

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Rupert Murdoch says some Fox News anchors 'endorsed' false election fraud claims in Dominion caseFurther revelations about Fox Corp executives were unveiled in Dominion Voting Systems court papers filed Monday. They created a lying monster by giving him Billions of $ of free airtime, and now that monster's lies will have them pay another couple of Billions for it. Karma is a b*ch! 😂😂😂 We watched as Bret called Arizona with only 1% of the vote counted. We saw it with our own eyes. Then again when the count was stopped in five states with one candidate ahead and restarted hours later with the other candidate ahead. 😵‍💫 The equivalent of covid coming from bat soup?
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