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Ryan Knutson: Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Ryan Knutson. It's Monday, April 17th. Coming up on the show, Dominion Voting Systems versus Fox News. After the 2020 election, then President Donald Trump and his allies claimed the election was stolen and a big part of the allegation was that voting machines made by Dominion were rigged.
Ryan Knutson: Fox News is owned by Fox Corp, which is also a defendant in the case. Fox Corp shares common ownership with the parent company of The Wall Street Journal's publisher. In its lawsuit, Dominion alleges Fox aired dozens of defamatory statements across 17 broadcasts and three tweets. One example Dominion cited is from November 8th, 2020, when host Maria Bartiromo interviewed one of Trump's lawyers, Sidney Powell.
Sydney Powell: Let's put it mildly. The computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all. That is where the fraud took place, where they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist. We need an -Erin Mulvaney: Dominion, in court papers, claims that they corresponded during this time with Fox thousands of times, thousands of individual messages.
Erin Mulvaney: Dominion will have to prove that Fox either knew the information was false and broadcast it anyway or had a reckless disregard for the truth, and that's a standard known as actual malice under defamation law. All the context and all the evidence that they're going to bring forward will have to go to the root of those two questions.
Erin Mulvaney: Dominion is pointing to text messages and emails, on one hand, that show many different producers, executives, hosts in the chain of command expressing either skepticism or outright admitting they didn't think anything that was being said by Powell or Giuliani was true at all. Ryan Knutson: Dobbs has since left Fox. He declined to comment. Other hosts at Fox also showed private skepticism about the claims, according to Dominion's legal filings. In text messages dated November 7th, Tucker Carlson said claims that voting machine software was manipulated was, quote, "absurd." Later that month, Laura Ingram sent a text that said, quote, "No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying.
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