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Fox News host Laura Ingraham said the head of the network's political Decision Desk "always made my skin crawl," in messages to stars Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity following the 2020 election.

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How a civil war erupted at Fox News after the 2020 election

After Fox News projected Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump in the key state of Arizona, network stars turned on their own journalists, documents made public in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit show.

March 08, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
A security guard looks out of the News Corp. headquarters in New York on April 19, 2017.

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Compare the election-fraud claims Fox News aired with what its stars knew

After the 2020 election, Fox News repeatedly aired claims of election fraud even though its stars and executives said, behind the scenes, those claims were "ludicrous," "bs" and "nonsense."

February 18, 2023
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  • Mary Yang
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Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled

Fox News stars, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, privately derided then-President Donald Trump's assertion he'd been cheated of victory in 2020, even as the network amplified such claims.

February 17, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
M&M's pause of its spokescandies comes after a right-wing backlash to changes in the Green and Brown M&Ms and the addition of the Purple M&M.

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M&M's replaces its spokescandies with Maya Rudolph after Tucker Carlson's rants

The Fox News host attacked the minor brand changes as "woke" and declared that M&M's wouldn't stop until "you're totally turned off." Maya Rudolph will replace the cartoons as M&M's spokeswoman.

January 24, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde and
  • David Folkenflik
Among the stars being questioned under oath for Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News are Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo. Banners bearing their images hang from Fox Corp. headquarters in New York City, first, second and fourth from left, respectively.

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Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit

Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and others are being grilled under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading lies about a voting tech company's role in the 2020 elections.

September 06, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Fox News personalities adorn the front of the News Corporation building in 2019 in New York City.

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Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

June 11, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Fox News host Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was the last straw for two network commentators. Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned.

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2 Fox News commentators resign over Tucker Carlson series on the Jan. 6 siege

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned after the Fox News star hosted a series that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

November 22, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik
Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York.

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'Off the rails': New Tucker Carlson project for Fox embraces conspiracy theories

Tucker Carlson's new three-part series on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol relies on a rogue's gallery of conspiracy theorists to divert blame from supporters of former President Donald Trump.

November 04, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik and
  • Tom Dreisbach
Tucker Carlson, host of <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>, on the set of his Fox News program in 2017.

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Tucker Carlson Says The NSA Wants Him Off The Air. Fox News Isn't Following His Lead

The Fox News star claims the National Security Agency has seen his emails and texts and plans to leak them to force him off the air. But the network hasn't backed up those claims with any reporting.

July 01, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik
Fox News host Tucker Carlson "is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary,' " U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote.

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You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers

Fox News viewers don't expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump.

September 29, 2020
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  • David Folkenflik
A top writer for Fox News' Tucker Carlson resigned after CNN revealed his racist and sexist posts, reviving criticism of Carlson's commentaries. Carlson is set to address the controversy on Monday.

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Fresh Scrutiny For Fox's Tucker Carlson As Top Writer Quits Over Bigoted Posts

A top writer for Fox News' Tucker Carlson resigns after CNN revealed his racist and sexist posts, reviving criticism of Carlson's commentaries. Carlson is set to address the controversy Monday.

July 14, 2020
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  • David Folkenflik

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