Fox News responded to an incendiary court filing in Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation suit last week by asserting that “the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan.”
Sullivan, the landmark press freedom ruling, is indeed central to this case. That’s why Fox is facing a potentially disastrous jury trial and the possibility of a gargantuan liability verdict.
The latest filing by Dominion reveals dozens of damning private statements by Fox personalities and executives demonstrating that they knew Team Trump’s claims of a rigged election were hogwash. Yet Fox continued to broadcast the lie that Trump had actually won the election.
