Dominion wants full Fox lawsuit to become unredacted

Dominion executives hope all of the text messages between Fox News hosts including Tucker Carlson that they discovered as part of their defamation lawsuit will one day become public. Dominion, the company behind voting machines that Donald Trump’s camp claimed were rigged in the 2020 election, sued Fox for airing the former president’s claims. As part of the lawsuit discovery, they private uncovered texts in which Fox hosts and journalists seemed to acknowledge that the fraud claims were not true or farfetched, but gave them airtime anyway. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

Fox settled the case on April 18, moments before a trial was due to begin and potentially unearth more of the behind-the-scenes exchanges. In their first interview since the lawsuit was settled unexpectedly, Dominion’s CEO John Poulos and Stephen Shackelford, a lawyer who was involved in the case, told Axios they now want the full record to become unredacted. They also took credit for Carlson’s firing, which came after senior Fox News executives learned what he had been saying in them in text messages that the lawsuit unearthed. Pictured: Dominion lawyer Stephen Shackelford (right leaving court on April 18 after the settlement was reached) said he hopes the full record would be unredacted). Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

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‘Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part of the settlement. But the very fact that that’s what resulted out of all of this, and it’s traceable from the work that Dominion set in motion.. of course I know what’s in the redacted stuff and I can’t say anything about it. I hope that it all gets un-redacted at some point,’ Shackelford, a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP, told Axios. Hootan Yaghoobzadeh (pictured), co-founder of Staple Street Capital which is Dominion’s private equity owner, also appeared to take credit for Carlson’s firing. ‘I think the consequences of the entire strategy that we pursued are starting to reflect themselves.’ He added that Carlson’s firing is ‘much more profound’ than ‘some disingenuous apology or forced statement’ of wrongdoing. ‘For us to have a meaningful impact, we had to make sure that we got that rock moving.’ Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

Yaghoobzadeh also claimed Dominion did not want to settle the case at all. ‘We made sure that all the attorneys understood that settlement was like a curse word. We didn’t want to talk about it. Our strategy was to go to trial, get to a verdict and accomplish three goals, which were to make sure the truth got exposed, kept Fox accountable, and that we were compensated for the damages they inflicted.’ He did not disclose why they ultimately chose to end litigation.  Pictured: Rupert Murdoch with Lachlan Murdoch. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

Many of the exchanges between Carlson, other hosts at Fox News and Rupert Murdoch remain partially or fully redacted. Had a trial gone ahead, it’s likely more of their comments would have come to light. A representative for Fox News said of the Dominion settlement: ‘We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems. We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.’ Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

The network has been tight-lipped in its explanation of Carlson’s bombshell firing. In a statement last Monday, a spokesman said: ‘FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. ‘We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.’ A New York Times report claims Carlson called one senior Fox News executive a ‘[expletive],’ and was disappointed when that was redacted from the official record. Pictured: Tucker Carlson with his wife Susan in Florida last week. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033349/Dominion-wants-Fox-lawsuit-unredacted-Tucker-Carlson-firing.html?ito=msngallery

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