Fox News Channel has announced that Jesse Watters, one of their biggest stars, will be taking over the 8 p.m. programming time slot vacated by Tucker Carlson. Watters' show, "Jesse Watters Primetime", is set to debut in the coming weeks and is expected to help bring back viewers and restore the network's ratings. Laura Ingraham's show will move from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m., while Sean Hannity will remain in the 9 p.m. slot and Greg Gutfeld's late-night broadcast will move to 10 p.m.
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Fox News is facing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems due to false election fraud claims made by Fox News personalities in 2020. On Sunday, Fox News anchor Howard Kurtz addressed the situation on his show, and a former Fox News producer has filed a lawsuit claiming Fox lawyers pressured her to give false testimony in the case. The judge overseeing the case has sanctioned Fox News and launched an investigation into potential legal misconduct, making it a "very rough week" for the network. The trial is set to begin on Tuesday.
Dominion Voting Systems' presentation has revealed an email sent by Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to the company's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, warning of the financial fallout if the network continued to fact-check Donald Trump's lies after the 2020 election. The presentation is part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, and Fox has responded by saying they will "vigorously defend" themselves against the "baseless claims." Murdoch had said Trump's claims were "pretty much a crime," and Scott had said the documents "demonstrate Dominion's continued reliance on cherry-picked quotes without context."
Dominion Voting Systems is seeking to call Fox News' top executives and most well-known hosts to the witness stand in its $1.6 billion defamation case against the network. Fox News has argued that Rupert Murdoch, its Chairman, should be excused from testifying, but the judge has expressed skepticism. The case is ongoing and a trial date has yet to be set.
Hundreds of pages of previously unreleased documents were made public as part of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The documents include emails, text messages, and other material from Fox News executives and on-air personalities, showing how Fox News privately dismissed some of the election conspiracies they promoted on-air. The documents also include statements from Rupert Murdoch rejecting the conspiracy theories about Dominion that his own network promoted. The documents could be used as evidence in the ongoing defamation lawsuit, with the outcome yet to be seen.
Fox News is facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, alleging that Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen. Rupert Murdoch's testimony under oath has undermined Fox News' defense against the lawsuit, and the scandal has caused considerable financial and reputational damage to the network and its parent company.