Fox News is worse than you thought

Fox News hosts, execs privately doubted 2020 conspiracy claims shared on air. Rupert Murdoch called election conspiracy theories ‘really crazy stuff,’ according to new legal filings in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.

News organizations rarely look good when their internal emails and text messages surface in the public square. A filing Thursday from Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News is not only no exception, it’s a watershed of journalistic misdeeds.

ox News’s most prominent hosts and top executives agonized behind the scenes in the weeks following the 2020 election as they watched allies of Donald Trump appear on their own airwaves promoting false conspiracy theories about a stolen election, according to internal emails, text messages and depositions excerpted in a new court filing.

“Sidney Powell is lying,” Tucker Carlson wrote to a producer about the Trump lawyer, who once claimed in a guest spot that voting technology companies “flipped” Trump votes to Biden.

You're gonna need popcorn for this thread. @FoxNews, more lawyers. https://t.co/PjuCcVWrQp

— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) February 17, 2023

"'Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,' Mr. Carlson wrote to Ms. Ingraham on Nov. 18, 2020.

"Ms. Ingraham responded: 'Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.'

"Mr. Carlson continued, 'Our viewers are good people and they… https://t.co/RhJL11OJrk

— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) February 16, 2023

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