Your Reminder That…

At first, right after the election, from Rupert on down, Fox executives were trying to clamp down on election denial. pic.twitter.com/cX1wIpOv1F

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 27, 2023

Per the filing, on November 8, 2020, Rupert Murdoch met with Lachlan and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott about the "mounting viewer backlash to Fox," and embarked on a strategy that involved platforming election liars. pic.twitter.com/DDPHS6QBRQ

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 27, 2023

"News" is not a legally defined term.

Another Fox news-side person, this time Leland Vittert, getting chewed out by the Fox execs for not being pro-Trump enough. pic.twitter.com/FL2AVsneIp

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 27, 2023

Fox News is not a news channel. Rupert Murdoch has just been caught exploiting the PERCEPTION THAT FOX NEWS IS A LEGITIMATE NEWS ORGANIZATION to give the Trump campaign a significant advantage in the election campaign.

This a BFD.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 27, 2023

It is hard to overstate how much of an advantage it is to have your opponent's ads in advance during a close election.

It's a massive edge

In a presidential, you have a lot of money but there is very little time

Learning your opponents' strategy in advance is invaluable

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 27, 2023

But "actual malice" is:

Dominion tried to book a representative on Fox programs that pushed lies about the company but were declined. pic.twitter.com/ezgrQTpnpo

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 27, 2023

Here we are, I've been waiting for this -- Fox's internal research department "fact-checked the allegations and debunked the charges" against Dominion, but Fox kept airing them.

Fox subsequently canned the "Brain Room" members. pic.twitter.com/fca5Uhtzw2

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 27, 2023

doesn’t being a billionaire get you out of having to slit your own legal throat in a deposition? What has the world come to? https://t.co/BDjL8AFMLY

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 28, 2023

And there is so much evidence of actual malice in the public record of this case that it could be used in law school textbooks.

On Fox News, eh? https://t.co/ADLJonSQTQ

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 28, 2023