Voting company, citing emails, argues Rupert Murdoch had misgivings about Fox News’ 2020 election coverage.
, sent a letter to Fox News and other far-right networks demanding retractions of what they said were defamatory statements about Smartmatic voting equipment. Dominion's lawsuit against Fox followed within days.
In its filing, Dominion quoted extensively from the exhibits released by the court Tuesday. In one email released Tuesday, Murdoch wrote to Fox News president Suzanne Scott five days after the election, on Nov. 8, 2020:"Getting creamed by CNN! Guess our viewers don't want to watch it.
"Thanks to today's filings, Dominion has been caught red handed again using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," Fox said in a statement provided to CBS News Tuesday night."We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.
Fox argued in its own counterclaim that Dominion's lawsuit should be dropped because the company had only filed the suit"to punish [Fox News Network] for reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day — allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud," the Fox filing reads."The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy.
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