Fox News settles voting case but ‘Big Lie’ remains
Apr 19, 2023
22:42
Fox News is the most watched news network in the United States. In the days after the 2020 Presidential election, it broadcasted Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie”: that the election was stolen from him and voting machines were partly to blame.
The company that makes some of those voting machines, Dominion Voting, pushed back suing Fox for defamation and settling for $787-million.
Today, CBC’s Washington-based correspondent Alex Panetta takes us through what court filings revealed about how Fox’s most powerful people knew they were telling their audience was untrue, but did it anyway for ratings.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts
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