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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt in New York

Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims

Protesters outside the Fox News headquarters in New York. Media and legal experts believe Fox could be in trouble in the Dominion case.
Protesters outside the Fox News headquarters in New York. Media and legal experts believe Fox could be in trouble in the Dominion case. Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

In the months following the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.

There seemed to be little consequence for peddling the most outrageous ideas on primetime.

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