Yet Fox continued to broadcast the lie that Trump had actually won the election. Even as Fox’s stars were broadcasting Trump’s false allegations to their viewers, they were doubting and disparaging them in conversations with one another. So Fox was careful in the aftermath of the election to toe the official Trump line that he had been cheated. What Fox’s pious proclamation of press freedom misses is that lies of the sort the network appears to have told its viewers don’t enjoy or deserve constitutional protection. In another piece of bad legal news for Fox, defamation is considered statement by statement.

Source: Fox News February 27, 2023 21:26 UTC