The Truth about Fox “News”

In 2021, Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News Network for defaming them with damaging lies and conspiracy theories in the wake of the 2020 election. Discovery and under oath depositions exposed Fox as corrupt and devoid of truth and decency.

Internal emails revealed that Fox CEO Suzanne Scott put the kibosh on on-air fact checks of Trump’s election lies. “This has to stop now… Bad for business,” was her written opinion of accurate facts being reported to a Fox “News” audience.

Then-Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch testified under oath that he knew Trump’s baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election were being broadcast on his network but chose to allow the lying to Fox’s mass audience to continue unabated. Could he have stopped it? “I could have. But I didn’t.”

Murdoch also conceded under oath that specific Fox on-air personalities (Dobbs, Hannity, Pirro, Bartiromo) were complicit with Trump in actively lying to millions of people about the results of the 2020 election. “Yes.They endorsed.”

When asked why pillow-man Mike Lindell was allowed constant access to Fox air-time to spread what Murdoch knew to be “insane” election lies, Murdoch said, “The man is on every night. Pays us a lot of money… It is not red or blue, it is green.” 

Remember the texts? Tucker Carlson: “I hate him passionately. We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.” After the Capitol attack, Carlson called Trump a “demonic force, a destroyer.” In other private texts, Carlson unloaded on Sydney Powell, the Trump lawyer allowed to lie repeatedly on Fox: “Sydney Powell is lying. Fucking bitch.” She’s an “unguided missile,” “dangerous as hell,” and a “crazy person.” Carlson knew Fox was lying and beaming deadly disinformation into the minds of Trump supporters.

Fox producer: “Our audience doesn’t want to hear about a peaceful transition.”

Fox exec commenting to an on-air personality about posting election lies on right-wing social media site Parler as opposed to on then-Twitter: “I mean if you say crazy wrong shit on Parler is that better just because Parler won’t flag you?” 

Fox knew the truth and they knew the lies were dangerous to our country. But Fox lied and kept on lying to millions of people. The truth about how Fox lied only came to light when they were forced to testify under oath in an American court of law where facts still matter.

In the end, Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay 787 MILLION DOLLARS in a settlement to Dominion rather than have the case go to trial where all the facts would have come out and been reported daily to the public. Reuters: “Fox settles Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million dollars over election lies.” 

Fox doesn’t care about telling the truth. They only care about political power and profit. They will aggressively lie to their base of viewers to amass more power and money. Nothing has changed since they along with Trump whipped up the violent, deadly insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Their methods and motives are the same.

What Fox is pumping out now in 2024 before the election is propaganda and cannot be trusted.