#dominion voting systems

[liberalsarecool]

FOX: dishonest and deceptive.

[mysharona1987]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Dominion lawsuit against Fox News.

         After our brief foray into lovely Northern Ireland, let's return to the meltdown at the center of Trump's world, a.k.a. the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News lawsuit in Delaware. Going into a major trial is like entering a blast furnace—weak points melt, debris incinerates, and all that is left is the unalloyed truth. It can be a painful process—and usually is. Unfortunately for Fox, in the lawsuit brought by Dominion, the truth is stacked on the Dominion side of the ledger, meaning that Fox News's case is going up in flames.

         Fox News and its attorneys have lost all credibility with the judge. On the eve of trial, Dominion continues to produce information from third parties that is in the possession of Fox News and should have been produced in discovery by Fox—but was not. See The Hill, Judge sanctions Fox News for withholding evidence in Dominion lawsuit.

         That is a very bad development for Fox on the eve of trial. The judge has appointed a special master to determine if Fox or its attorneys made deliberate misrepresentations to the court. And the Court has issued sanctions against Fox, requiring it to pay for additional depositions and discovery demanded by Dominion.

         Here's the point: Like Trump, Fox News assumed that it could get away with bending the truth because no one would hold it accountable. It now finds itself in a trial where truth matters, and representations to the judge cannot be treated like fact-free commentary from Tucker Carlson.

         It is a healthy process for the leadership of Fox to see that their disregard for truth and journalistic standards can affect the bottom line. Shareholders have now filed a lawsuit in Delaware against the Fox Board of Directors for breaching their fiduciary duty in failing to prevent the dissemination of false information. NBC News, Rupert Murdoch and Fox Corp. board members sued by investor over 'stolen election claims'.

         Whatever else happens, there is an internal reckoning occurring at Fox that will remove editorial control from the hands of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and put it in the hands of oversight committees, editors, and compliance officers. The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit should have a positive effect on journalism in America, no matter the outcome.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A number of bombshell revelations about the inner workings of Fox News have come to light as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the network.

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, has admitted under oath that many hosts on his network “endorsed” Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election for financial, not political, reasons, stating, “It is not red or blue, it is green.”

In court filings, Dominion also revealed that Murdoch had given Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner confidential information about Biden’s campaign ads and debate strategy in possible violation of election laws.

Our guest, Angelo Carusone, is president of the watchdog group Media Matters for America, which recently sent a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Fox News based on evidence from the Dominion lawsuit.

“All the way from Rupert Murdoch on down to the show producers, they knew what they were saying was not true, that it was actually a lie, and they did it anyway,” says Carusone.

[jonostroveart]

Settled

[yemme]

$787.5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT

Now I need every person/family that has been harmed/killed by “Alternative Facts” on that network to continue to file suit.  You didn’t want Dominion to air your business for the world to see FOX but you are still liable for your actions.  You caused deaths and harm to many.

[tomorrowusa]

In fact, Fox paid out $787,500,000.00 just so it wouldn’t have to reveal in open court how mendacious and duplicitous it is.

Though most Fox viewers probably wouldn’t really care anyway. It’s a lot easier to indoctrinate people than it is to deprogram them.

[mysharona1987]

[z34l0t]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Steve Brodner

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Dominion lawsuit against Fox News.

         After our brief foray into lovely Northern Ireland, let's return to the meltdown at the center of Trump's world, a.k.a. the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News lawsuit in Delaware. Going into a major trial is like entering a blast furnace—weak points melt, debris incinerates, and all that is left is the unalloyed truth. It can be a painful process—and usually is. Unfortunately for Fox, in the lawsuit brought by Dominion, the truth is stacked on the Dominion side of the ledger, meaning that Fox News's case is going up in flames.

         Fox News and its attorneys have lost all credibility with the judge. On the eve of trial, Dominion continues to produce information from third parties that is in the possession of Fox News and should have been produced in discovery by Fox—but was not. See The Hill, Judge sanctions Fox News for withholding evidence in Dominion lawsuit.

         That is a very bad development for Fox on the eve of trial. The judge has appointed a special master to determine if Fox or its attorneys made deliberate misrepresentations to the court. And the Court has issued sanctions against Fox, requiring it to pay for additional depositions and discovery demanded by Dominion.

         Here's the point: Like Trump, Fox News assumed that it could get away with bending the truth because no one would hold it accountable. It now finds itself in a trial where truth matters, and representations to the judge cannot be treated like fact-free commentary from Tucker Carlson.

         It is a healthy process for the leadership of Fox to see that their disregard for truth and journalistic standards can affect the bottom line. Shareholders have now filed a lawsuit in Delaware against the Fox Board of Directors for breaching their fiduciary duty in failing to prevent the dissemination of false information. NBC News, Rupert Murdoch and Fox Corp. board members sued by investor over 'stolen election claims'.

         Whatever else happens, there is an internal reckoning occurring at Fox that will remove editorial control from the hands of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and put it in the hands of oversight committees, editors, and compliance officers. The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit should have a positive effect on journalism in America, no matter the outcome.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, “I hate him passionately.”

Carlson’s private text comments were revealed in court papers at virtually the same time the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media. Trump said he was doing a “great job” in presenting excerpts of U.S. Capitol security video of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — though Carlson used the video to produce a false narrative of the attack.

The documents are coming to light at a time of increased tension between Trump and Fox, the dominant media force appealing to conservatives, as he campaigns to regain the presidency.

Voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, claiming the network broadcast false claims that the company was responsible for fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The case is to go to trial this spring, and a trove of documents related to Fox’s actions after the election are being publicly released in advance.

A common theme emerging from the internal documents and depositions is that Fox executives and hosts doubted the election claims being peddled by Trump and his allies, but aired and emphasized them anyway. Fox was growing concerned about a decline in viewership as Trump supporters turned away from the network after it — correctly — called Joe Biden the presidential winner in Arizona on election night.

The exchanges include Carlson’s text conversation on Jan. 4, 2021, with an unknown person, in which the prime-time host expressed anger toward Trump.

Carlson said that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and that “I truly can’t wait.”

Carlson said he had no doubt there was fraud in the 2020 election, but that Trump and his lawyers had so discredited their case — and media figures like himself — “that it’s infuriating. Absolutely enrages me.”

Federal and state officials, courts, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, although Trump continues to falsely state that the presidency was stolen from him.

Addressing Trump’s four years as President, Carlson said, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

In another text exchange more than a month earlier, Carlson denigrated Trump’s business abilities: Trump’s talent, he said, is to “destroy things. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”

Publicly, Fox viewers heard very different views, such as a 2017 exchange with colleague Greg Gutfeld in which Carlson agreed that Trump was “the greatest President that ever will be.” On his show in 2019, Carlson said Trump had fought as hard as he could to make sure everyone in America was treated equally under the law.

“You can say what you really believe in public,” Carlson said then. “You’re an American citizen. That is your right.” Trump could lose in 2020, he added, “but he’ll be a genuinely great President.”

Fox, in response to the court exhibits quoting Carlson that were released late Tuesday, said that “Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”

Carlson has continued rolling out security video from the Capitol attack, footage handed to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. For that, Trump said on his social media platform, “congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest ‘scoops’ as a reporter in U.S. history.”

The selective release of the footage to sway the historical account has drawn criticism, including from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called on Fox to stop spreading election lies, which he said was eroding trust in American democracy.

Fox’s founder, Rupert Murdoch, has a complex relationship with Trump: “I was not close to him,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the libel lawsuit.

Indeed, though Murdoch acknowledged talking to Trump occasionally, he said he also sought inside information from Sean Hannity, one of his network’s primetime hosts, because Hannity was the closest person at Fox to Trump.

Following Trump’s loss in November 2020, Murdoch despaired of the President’s behavior.

“The real danger is what he might do as President,” Murdoch wrote in an email to a friend that month. “Apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls! Don’t know about Melania, but kids no help.”

But Murdoch told his network’s officials that he also didn’t want to “antagonize” Trump: “He had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the Dominion case.

In separate questioning in the case, Murdoch acknowledged that he believed the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen.”

On social media recently, Trump was critical of Fox when other court papers released in the Dominion case made clear that a number of the network’s executives and personalities privately believed the election fraud claims were bunk.

Trump and his team also have accused Fox of giving his latest campaign for the presidency little attention and favoring a potential challenger for the GOP nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fox and Trump have long had a complicated relationship. While he frequently has used the network to reach its audience, he also has been furious at a perceived lack of loyalty, most prominently after the 2020 election.

In a fiery speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee last week, Trump ally Steve Bannon complained that Fox had disrespected the former President.

“You’ve deemed Trump’s not going to be President,” Bannon said. “Well, we deem you’re not going to have a network.”

On Saturday afternoon, Fox News aired Trump’s speech to CPAC in its entirety.