Documents From Fox Defamation Suit Spotlight Tension Between Prime-Time Hosts and News Personnel

‘The three of us have enormous power,’ Laura Ingraham told her colleagues, according to filings in defamation suit against network

Dominion sued Fox News for defamation in March 2021. Thalia Juarez for The Wall Street Journal

Newly released court documents from a defamation case against Fox News over its 2020 election coverage show a deep fissure in the network between high-profile prime-time opinion hosts and other personnel who were deeply skeptical of election fraud claims. 

The documents, made public in litigation between voting-machine company Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, depict an organization scrambling over how to cover Donald Trump’s failed bid for re-election, as well as claims by the then-president and his supporters that the election was stolen.

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