Fox could face the music

Fox faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit by a voting-machine manufacturer that the network’s hosts and guests claimed — ludicrously — was “flipping” votes against Trump. Perhaps a crippling legal judgment is what it will finally take to get Fox to stop poisoning democracy.

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Opinion

February 11, 2021 - 9:08 AM

Other than former President Donald Trump himself, there may be no voice in America more culpable for spreading the dangerous myth of a stolen Nov. 3 election than Fox News. The cable network has duped millions of its viewers into accepting Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories and lies that fueled the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Now Fox faces a $2.7 billion defamation suit by a voting-machine manufacturer that the network’s hosts and guests claimed — ludicrously — was “flipping” votes against Trump. Perhaps a crippling legal judgment is what it will finally take to…

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