From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.

A closely watched lawsuit headed for trial in April seeks to hold Fox News legally responsible

for the false claims made by its guests and hosts about the 2020 election.

Today, my colleague Jeremy Peters on the Mountain of Evidence that's emerged so far,

showing that Fox knew that what it was doing was wrong.

It's Monday, February 27th.

Jeremy, tell us about this lawsuit.

So, after the 2020 election, you'll recall that all of these wild conspiracy started going viral on the right.

Stories about how the election had supposedly been stolen from Donald Trump through this massive coordinated conspiracy.

And one of the biggest megaphones to amplify those conspiracy theories and falsehoods was Fox News.

Welcome to Hannity, this busy news breaking Friday night.

Tonight we're continuing to track multiple serious and credible allegations of election irregularities, ballot.

There were all sorts of stories flying around.

The tape appears to show poll workers retrieving suitcases full of ballots from underneath the table and doing that well past midnight.

What was that? It looks like fraud.

Suitcases full of ballots that somehow disappeared from polling places.

Three trays of mail, including mail and ballots were discovered in a ditch, not ballots that had disappeared into a ditch.

We've never had voter fraud of this level in the history of this country.

Of course, none of it was true.

And one theory that Trump supporters begin seizing on is this idea that voting machines are somehow involved in this massive conspiracy to deny him re-election.

And the company that receives the most targeting from Trump and supporters is Dominion voting systems.

This company that no one had ever heard of before Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies started talking about it on television.

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