With The Start Of Dominion’s Defamation Trial, Consequences Loom For Fox News

In early December Scott He answered angrily When Fox Reporter checked the facts, one of Trump’s election of the claims of the conspiracy on the air, informing the other leader in an email: “This should stop now.”

She added: “This is bad for business.”

In other posts, as the court documents say, the leaders spoke about the need to “find a problem” and said that they were afraid of “urine[ing] From the audience.

Dominion says that its lawyers sent FOX to more than 3600 emails trying to correct Fox reports on this issue. The company identified 20 specific statements from Fox Transcasts in the period from November 8, 2020 and January 26, 2021, which, according to her, were legally slander.

Davis has already stated that the evidence in this case “demonstrates that it is crystal clear that not one of the statements regarding the dominion about the 2020 elections is not true.”

No matter how the case of a strong dominion may seem, the constitution and precedent of the Supreme Court make it difficult to prove dipamation in the news zone. The bar is high; Dominion will have to prove “actual malice”, which means that Fox either knew that he was translated incorrectly, or acted in reckless neglect of the truth.

For their part, Fox lawyers stated in the Dominion case that the first amendment was protecting them and that the owners simply represented the news, worthy news made by others – Trump and his allies.

“The lawsuit of Dominion is a political crusade in search of a financial unforeseen fall, but the real value will be certified by the right to the first amendment,” Fox said in a statement by Huffpost. “While Dominion pushed the inappropriate and misleading information to obtain headlines, Fox News remains firm in protecting the rights of free press, taking into account the verdict for the dominion, and its private investment owners will have serious consequences for the entire journalism profession.”

It is expected that the test will last about six weeks.

This is a syndicated version article Initially published on Huffpost.