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New evidence puts heat on Fox and “the big lie”

The Beat with Ari Melber

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Fox News's Flimsy Approach to Sourcing and Checking Claims

In America, the courts do not treat any honest mistakes in that process as defamation or punishable. So legally, the people suing Fox, they need more. And the evidence they're getting suggests these were not honest mistakes along the way,. As I showed with the pre tape example, take another disclosure about Fox's flimsy approach to sourcing and checking claims. Before one interview with Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, in advance, she told Fox that her single source for these election claims was a person who does quote, time travel in a semi conscious state. What in journalism, that's the opposite of a source. That's your source. You don't publish. It is bananas. B-A-

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