Tucker Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News this week sparked a number of theories about what prompted the move.
Fox News gave no reason for Carlson’s exit and merely pointed to its press release from Monday about the topic. But the decision came less than a week after the network agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a high-profile defamation suit that had dredged up messages from Carlson and some of his colleagues in which they dismissed claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen but then promoted that false information on air.
