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Fox ‘News’ Exposed For Blatantly Lying To Its Viewers

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The fascist news outlet is being blasted for blatantly lying to its viewers so they don't lose them to more radical networks.

If you watch the news to get informed you might want to delete Fox News from your network. Watching Fox ‘News’ is like a smorgasbord of fallacies in logic and reasoning tied in with extreme right wing biases. Mixed with video and reports of cherry-picked content that more often than not lack important context. A study was done and showed that people who watch Fox ‘News’ actually know less about the real world than people who watch no news at all. If that’s not the definition of a propaganda network, I don’t know what is.

I maintain a hard rule of not listening to people I’ve caught lying to me. And I hold the same rule for my news outlets.

Fox 'News' Defamation of Dominion and the United States Election Process

Fox ‘News’ is being exposed in court for its latest, and perhaps most sinister, work of misleading its viewers. The reports of how blatantly Fox ‘News’ acted in deceiving its viewers from the truth about Dominion voting machines and the integrity of U.S. elections are quite damning and it appears Fox is on its way to losing a massive settlement – in the billions – for choosing to lie to its viewers to make them happy and keep them from moving to more radical propaganda outlets like OAN and Newsmax.

It can be hard to keep up with the ongoing case, but you can check in here as I’ll continue to update this post with the latest revelations as they come out in court.

March 3, 2023

Will Fox Settle With Dominion Over Election Lies As High-Stakes Trial Nears?

Fox News may soon be held liable for defamation after it pushed false claims on its network tying Dominion Voting Systems’ machines to election fraud following the 2020 election, with the high-profile lawsuit scheduled to go to trial next month—assuming a resolution doesn’t come before then.

March 1, 2023

'Extremely threatening case': First amendment atty on Dominion lawsuit against Fox News

First amendment attorney Floyd Abrams joins “CNN This Morning” to discuss Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch saying under oath that he made a business decision when allowing a conspiracy theorist to promote election lies on Fox News. #CNN #News

February 28, 2023

Legal analysis on Fox News defamation case

CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joins “CBS Mornings” to break down the defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Dominion Voting Systems accuses the network of promoting falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. #news #foxnews #dominion

February 27, 2023

Dominion Lawsuit Reveals Fox and Murdoch Knew Trump's 2020 Claims Were Lies: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Fox News barring its own anchors from covering a billion-dollar lawsuit against the company that revealed their on-air personalities knowingly lied to viewers about the 2020 election.

February 27, 2023

Fox News bomb goes off: Murdoch confesses they endorsed the lie as billion dollar case heats up

Fox News Chief Rupert Murdoch admitted under oath that some Fox hosts “endorsed” Donald Trump’s election lies, according to new court filings. Murdoch acknowledged in testimony that some of Fox hosts, including Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo specifically pushed the lie. Murdoch’s testimony is part of Dominion Voting’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network. NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray and Political Reporter for The Daily Beast Will Sommer join MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

February 26, 2023

Hear what first amendment attorney thinks about Fox News lawsuit

First Amendment and Constitutional lawyer Floyd Abrams explains why he believes Fox News will have ‘major problems’ exercising first amendment protections in its defense against a $1.6B lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. #jimAcosta #cnn #News

February 24, 2023

Hannity admits the lie as 'time travel' scandal hits Fox News empire

Fox News is on defense and facing over a billion dollars in potential punishment for fueling Donald Trump’s election lies. The CEO of Fox News Suzanne Scott admitting President Biden was legitimately elected despite the network’s coverage. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on explosive legal filings that show top Fox hosts didn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen, as more evidence is expected to be released.

February 21, 2023

Fox News admits the 'B.S.' in leaked text scandal: Hosts secretly trashed Trump lies

New evidence from a defamation lawsuit reveals Fox hosts and staff secretly viewed Trump’s election lies as “mind-blowingly nuts,” “reckless” and “insane” while promoting the claims and related guests on air. MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the new evidence, the legal issues in the case, Fox’s defense that it was reporting on “newsworthy” claims, and why the internal messages cast many claims in a new light.

February 20, 2023

O’Reilly on Fox News lawsuit: ‘I would never have’ misled viewers | CUOMO

Newly released court documents reveal that Fox News anchors were calling out Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud while they promoted them on air. It’s resulted in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. Author and journalist Bill O’Reilly, who hosted the No. 1 show at Fox News for years, says had he still been in the chair, he would have handled coverage of Trump’s claims in a different manner. “I would never have done … what Fox did on the election fraud,” he said.

February 19, 2023

Court filings claim Fox News stars ‘knew’ election fraud claims were false l This Week

ABC News’ Jon Karl reports on “This Week” about new developments in 2020 election fraud cases.

February 18, 2023

‘Fox News is in some trouble’: Legal expert reacts to revelations in lawsuit

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig reacts to Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News. #CNN #News

February 17, 2023

Court filing: Fox News employees privately questioned 2020 election fraud claims

The court document includes internal communications from Fox News anchors and staffers pushing back on claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. NBC News’ Jane Timm reports on the significance of the documents to the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

February 17, 2023

Lawsuit filing shows Fox hosts didn't believe election fraud lies they pushed on TV

A new court filing shows top executives at Fox News and leading network personalities privately dismissed former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud after the election even as they peddled those same lies on TV. The filing is part of an ongoing defamation lawsuit filed against the network by Dominion Voting Systems. David Folkenflik of NPR joined Geoff Bennett to discuss.

February 17, 2023

Hear what Tucker Carlson privately said about Trump's lies

A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how Fox News operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election. The correspondence reveals that the network’s senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News’ audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin. #CNN #News

February 17, 2023

These Are The Biggest Revelations From Dominion's Lawsuit Against Fox News

Forbes writer Zach Everson joins “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss the latest revelations from the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News.

February 17, 2023

‘It exposes what we thought we knew’: Expert on Dominion v. Fox $1.6 billion defamation suit

Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News has a filing that is “full of smoking guns,” MSNBC analyst Charlie Sykes tells Joy Reid. MSNBC analyst Charles Blow also joins The ReidOut to discuss additional, explosive findings showing that top Fox News hosts did not believe the 2020 election was stolen.

February 17, 2023

Explosive new evidence in Fox News defamation case

A new legal filing in Dominion’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News revealed on-air personalities and top executives promoted Trump’s false election claims while ridiculing them behind the scenes.

November 22, 2011

Study: Viewers of Fox News Less Informed of World Events Than Those Who Don't Watch Any News

www.democracynow.org – A new survey from Fairleigh-Dickinson University has found that viewers of Fox News are less informed of world events than people who don’t watch any news. The study found that Fox News viewers are 18 points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government and 6 points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government compared to those who watch no news. Fairleigh-Dickinson political science professor Dan Cassino said of the study, “the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all.”