Chapter Two in Fox News Legal Saga Over Election 2020 Coverage Could Be Tougher Than Chapter One

Fox News and its anchors repeatedly claimed on air that Smartmatic’s technology was created in Venezuela by strongman Hugo Chavez and imported to America as part of a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ to disrupt the elections.

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News headlines scroll above the Fox News studios at the News Corporation headquarters building at New York, August 1, 2017. AP Photo/Richard Drew

Instead of marking the end of Fox News’s legal troubles, its blockbuster settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday is just the close of chapter one. Chapter two could be even more entertaining to all the Fox critics who savored every email and text message from the news channel’s on-air personalities and senior managers released during the discovery phase of the Dominion case. 

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