Fox News Still Broadcasts Election Lies. It Could Cost Them.

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the broadcaster is tied to the outlet's full-throated embrace of former president Donald Trump's election lies and conspiracy theories — deceptions that forced one former Dominion executive into hiding.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, media correspondent David Folkenflik, and Colorado Public Radio reporter Bente Birkeland.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Devin Speak.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Kason, where I'm currently sitting in a parking garage in Eugene, Oregon,
0:04.1	after finally completing my awfully long hour and a half commute to the University of Oregon,
0:09.6	where I'm a student pursuing my degree in political science. This podcast was recorded at.
0:14.3	Wow, that is a really long commute. I guess you can listen to a lot of podcasts. It's 109
0:19.5	Eastern on Wednesday, March 8th. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, so okay,
0:23.9	here's the show.
0:24.4	Well, we've got you for 15 minutes of your next commute at least. Hey there, it's the NPR
0:31.7	Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. And today I am joined by Ben
0:36.4	to Berkland of Colorado Public Radio. Hey, Benza. Hey. It is good to have you back on the podcast.
0:41.5	We also have NPR Media Correspondent David Fulkenflick. David, you are taking a pause from non-stop
0:47.7	reading of depositions right now, and I appreciate that. Yeah, this is my rest and relaxation right here.
0:52.6	Talking to you good people. And those depositions are at the heart of what we're talking about today,
0:58.0	because nearly two and a half years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,
1:03.0	we are still seeing the fallout from his refusal to accept defeat and the millions of people
1:07.6	who bought into the lie that Trump somehow won the election. And a major source of those lies has
1:12.4	been Fox News. In recent weeks, legal documents have uncovered startling evidence and testimony,
1:18.6	showing that key figures at Fox News knew full well that Trump lost, but they went along with
1:23.0	these lies anyway. I mean, David, we're going to get into the context of how all this information
1:28.0	is coming out shortly. But let's just talk about what you have learned from reading through all of
1:32.4	this and from from doing reporting around these documents. Tell us about the environment at Fox
1:37.7	News in the immediate wake of the election and the calculations that executives and hosts were
1:42.6	making about how to frame would have just happened. Well, it was really less an environment more like
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