Fox News CEO Furious at Reporter for Fact-Checking Donald Trump's Election Lies

Dominion Voting Systems has presented a lot of evidence that Fox News knowingly misled viewers and helped spread false claims by former President Donald Trump that the 2020 election was stolen.

Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., are facing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by the voting equipment firm, which claims that the conservative network defamed the company by repeatedly claiming, without evidence, election fraud claims involving their voting machines.

In a court hearing last week, Dominion presented a private message from Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News.

According to The Guardian, in December 2020, after Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden, Scott sent an email to Fox News executive Meade Cooper, responding to an on-air fact-check by Fox News anchor and reporter Eric Shawn.

Scott was frustrated with Shawn when he appeared on Martha MacCallum's show and fact-checked Trump and a Sean Hannity guest.

"This has to stop now," Scott wrote in her email to Cooper. "This is bad business and there clearly is a lack of understanding [sic] what is happening in these shows. The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business."

However, another memo from Scott revealed that she did not really care about all the misinformation being spread in the network and showed that she cared more about the ratings.

She reportedly asked other Fox employees to alert her if the network booked former secretary of state Mike Pompeo or serial election misinformation spreader Mike Lindell. "They would both get ratings," Scott noted.

Fox News Denies Any Wrongdoing

When messages from Suzanne Scott surfaced publicly, a Fox News spokesperson accused Dominion of cherry-picking emails and claimed that this was part of the company's "self-serving narrative about what the right-wing network did after the 2020 election."

The network claimed that the emails that Dominion presented in its court filings were revealed without any context.

Newly-Released Emails Showed Fox News Wanted to Have Election Deniers on Air for Ratings

More Fox News emails have been released, showing that after pro-Donald Trump viewers switched to rival Newsmax, Fox News was in a panic and wanted to have Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell more because they inflated the ratings, according to CNN.

Powell, Giuliani, and host Lou Dobbs were all promoting debunked conspiracy theories that Dominion had rigged the 2020 election by flipping millions of votes, and emails surfaced of Fox News' efforts to keep them on the air for ratings.

Emails from a producer on Lou Dobbs' show wrote, "Any day with Rudy and Sidney is guaranteed gold!"

In another email, a different Lou Dobbs producer noted that "to keep this alive, we really need Rudy or Sidney." However, CNN reported that the full email chains are private and not publicly available.

In another email, Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said Donald Trump's inciting of the January 6 Capitol insurrection was "pretty much a crime." This email was previously redacted in previous court filings.

"Trump insisting on the election being stolen and convincing 25% of Americans was a huge disservice to the country," wrote Murdoch in his email to Suzanne Scott. "Pretty much a crime. Inevitable it blew up on January 6."

Following the events of January 6, Murdoch told Scott that it would have been best if they did not mention Trump and stop him from appearing on air.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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