Welcome to the Hive’s special newsletter series on Dominion’s legal showdown with Fox News, which is set to go on trial Monday as part of the voting-machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation suit. The trial, which culminates a yearslong campaign to hold Fox accountable for spreading Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, is poised to have big implications for journalism, free speech, and quite possibly the fate of democracy. We’ll be sending dispatches every Thursday until the verdict is reached.
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Fox News Heads to Trial in Peril
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It’s time for Dominion Voting Systems to make its case against Fox News in its $1.6 billion defamation suit. The election-system company has identified 20 occasions it was demonized on Fox after the 2020 election. Can Dominion prove Fox did it on purpose?
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Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
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With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic 12 months for the 92-year-old conservative media baron. As Fox and family insiders tell it, this could just be the beginning.
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