Fox Responds To Dominion’s $1.6B Lawsuit: We Stand In The “Highest Tradition Of American Journalism”

The New York Times reports:

In a statement on Friday, Fox said that its 2020 election coverage “stands in the highest tradition of American journalism” and pledged to “vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”

Fox Corporation previously filed a motion to dismiss the Smartmatic lawsuit, arguing that the false claims of electoral fraud made on its channels were part of covering a fast-breaking story of significant public interest. “An attempt by a sitting president to challenge the result of an election is objectively newsworthy,” Fox’s legal team wrote in the motion.

The narrative that Mr. Trump and his allies told about Dominion was among the more baroque creations of the president’s monthslong effort to cast doubt on the 2020 election results and persuade Americans that Mr. Biden’s victory was not legitimate.

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Breaking News: Fox News faces a second major defamation suit over its coverage of the 2020 election, a new front in the growing battle over media disinformation. https://t.co/uYrOpEKYrX

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