Fox News may face lawsuit over Tucker Carlson’s January 6 conspiracy theory

In almost 20 episodes of his talkshow, Carlson reiterated the conspiracy theory that Epps was an undercover operative who ‘helped stage-manage the insurrection’. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

Experts say conservative network Fox News could face a “a fairly strong” lawsuit from a man who Tucker Carlson repeatedly accused of working as a government agent and carrying out the January 6 insurrection.

Carlson, who was fired from the network in April, repeatedly alleged that Ray Epps was a secret government agent who coordinated the January 6 riots, the New York Times reported.