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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Adam Gabbatt

Fox News producer accuses network lawyers of ‘coercive’ coaching in Dominion case

Traffic on Sixth Avenue passes by advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, adorn the front of the News Corporation building,
Abby Grossberg said lawyers gave her the impression she had to ‘protect’ Fox News’ hosts from blame. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A Fox News producer who worked on Tucker Carlson’s flagship show has claimed in a pair of lawsuits that network lawyers “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the $1.6bn Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit.

Abby Grossberg, a senior producer and head of booking for Tucker Carlson who has also worked on Maria Bartiromo’s show, alleged that the network attempted to pin the blame for Fox News’ airing of voting conspiracies on her and Bartiromo – an effort that Grossberg says was part of a broader culture of sexism and misogyny at Fox News.

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