Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been granted access to 44,000 hours of security camera footage taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Carlson plans to bring viewers what he finds next week, and that excerpts of the footage will air on Fox News in the coming weeks. The footage is expected to provide further insight into the events of Jan. 6 and the involvement of members of Congress in the insurrection.
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Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion in damages due to their coverage of the 2020 election, which included baseless conspiracy theories and interviews with Trump sycophants. A new court filing has revealed private messages between Fox News hosts and employees, as well as media mogul Rupert Murdoch, including a text from Tucker Carlson calling then-President Trump “a demonic force” and “a destroyer.” Fox News is trying to get the case dismissed on the grounds that the claim is insufficient.
Emails and text messages released as part of a legal filing show that Fox News executives and hosts privately trashed lies pushed by former President Donald Trump and his legal team, but chose not to disclose the truth out of fear of alienating their audience. The lies included a bizarre tale of a rigged election involving voting machine software manipulation “created in Venezuela” by the late Hugo Chavez.
Fox News employees have expressed serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network. Internal communications from Fox News employees involved in election coverage reveal that producers, executives and stars of the network knew that the election wasn’t stolen and that many fraud claims were bogus. The filing is part of a larger legal battle between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, and it remains to be seen how the court will rule on the case.
Fox News has come under fire after damning messages were revealed in a court filing, showing that prominent stars and executives at the network privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air. The lawsuit is seeking $1.6 billion in damages from Fox News for defamation, sparking a debate about the role of media outlets in promoting false information. Critics argue that the network should have taken more responsibility for the lies it allowed to be broadcast, while supporters argue that the network should not be held responsible for the opinions of its guests.
Hunter Biden has launched an aggressive new strategy to combat long-running federal criminal investigations and new probes promised by congressional Republicans. His legal team has sent letters to the Delaware attorney general, the Department of Justice, the I.R.S. and attorneys for Fox News and Tucker Carlson, demanding state and federal investigations into the dissemination of material from his laptop. They have also threatened a defamation lawsuit against Fox News' Tucker Carlson for allegedly failing to correct false statements. This proactive approach marks a dramatic shift in strategy for the president's son.
M&M's announced on Monday that it will be taking an indefinite pause from its cartoon "spokescandies" due to polarizing changes that had been made to create a more inclusive world. This decision was apparently in response to criticism from conservatives like Tucker Carlson. The pause has been met with mixed reactions, and it remains to be seen how long it will last and what changes, if any, will be made to the spokescandies in the future.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets on Sunday in protest of his October election loss to President Luiz Inacio Lula…