‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents on Fox and the Election
Messages and depositions from stars like Tucker Carlson revealed serious misgivings about claims of fraud even as some hosts told millions of viewers a very differen
Fox News headquarters in New York. The latest release of documents in a defamation suit shed more light on the misgivings that many inside the network shared about claims of election fraud. Credit...Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson
March 7, 2023Updated 8:57 p.m. ET
6 MIN READ
It had been more than a week since the news networks projected that Joseph R. Biden Jr. would become the next president. And Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were at a loss about what to say on the air.
“What are we all going to do tmrw night?” Ms. Ingraham, the host of the 10 p.m. show on Fox News, asked her colleagues in a text message chain on Nov. 16, 2020.
Mr. Carlson responded that he planned to devote a significant chunk of his program to a little-known voting technology company that had become a target of Trump supporters who suspected the election had been rigged: Dominion Voting Systems.
“Haven’t said a word about it so far,” Mr. Carlson said, acknowledging that the conspiracy theories about Dominion’s purported role in a fictitious plot to siphon away votes from President Donald J. Trump were making him uneasy.
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