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Fox News on trial

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of opening arguments Monday, we unpack the Dominion defamation case against Fox News, and what the outcome could mean for the future of the media and democracy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, at the end of the day, this trial is going to come down to 20 statements.

0:11.3

The president's lawyers alleging a company called Dominion, which they say started in

0:16.5

Venezuela with Cuban money and with the assistance of smart, maddox software.

0:21.4

A backdoor is capable of flipping votes.

0:25.2

This was a stolen election.

0:27.2

I know the phone he elites don't want to hear.

0:31.6

All the machines are infected with the software code that allows Dominion to

0:37.2

share votes for one candidate and give them to another.

0:40.5

These are 20 statements that were said on air, on Fox. Fox News and Fox Business.

0:46.5

Statements that were about Dominion's voting machines.

0:50.0

And these are statements that we know are not true.

0:54.0

This is my colleague, Alahe Azadi.

0:56.3

You probably know her best as one of the hosts of this show, Post Reports.

1:00.4

But when Alahe isn't hosting, she's actually a media reporter.

1:04.4

And that means for months now, she's been immersed in this trial that's just getting started

1:09.7

in Wilmington, Delaware.

1:11.6

Dominion voting systems, they sued Fox News two years ago for $1.6 billion.

1:18.0

And they claim that Fox hosts and executives that they knowingly aired false information

1:24.4

about Dominion after the 2020 presidential election as Donald Trump was losing that race.

1:31.2

So even though inside the courtroom, I'm expecting to hear a lot of very specific legal arguments

1:38.2

about what is actual malice and what does Supreme Court President say about defamation.

1:43.5

This case has also turned into being about much more than that.

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