conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very
they used the machines to trash large batches of votes that should have been awarded to president trump and they used the machine to inject and add massive quantities of votes for mr. biden. again, it s a guest on a show who they all thought was a lunatic. every assertion she makes there was a lie and everybody at fox news knew it. according to dominion like lindell, the pillow guy and tucker carlson s top advertiser by the way was making the very same claims. but here he is on tucker carlson s show on january 26th, 20 days after the deadly capitol insurrection and as dominion reveals two months after carlson wrote privately that donald trump needed to concede the election and that there was no fraud on a scale to sway the 2020 election. watch. this particular thing going on now i ve been all in trying to find the machine fraud and we found it. we have all the evidence.
contacted fox news. say they didn t have the facts. we know from this filing they were provided with the facts, 3,600 time, quote, fox admits sidney powell and her team never provided fox with any evidence. dominion, by contrast made over 3,600 separate communications to fox with at least a dozen separate and widely circulated fact check emails each pointing to verifiable third-party information debunking the claims. fox s research department itself along with multiple fox employees debunked these claims in realtime. no credible evidence ever existed for these, quote, absurd allegations against dominion. fox witness after fox witness has admitted as much. consistent with every single reputable third party and stacks of public record documents so it s not a story that they were fighting about amongst themselves and the powerful prime people prevailed because of their ratings numbers. it s a story that everybody, again, from rupert to scott to