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    Column: Should Fox News have to pay for shameful election coverage? A court will decide

    by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times May 05, 2021 4 minutes

    Donald Trump’s lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell said a lot of outrageous things in the weeks after the 2020 election, when the president was desperately trying to cast doubt on the outcome of the race. Among other things, they peddled baseless conspiracy theories about two companies they said were engaged in election fraud — Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems.

    If they defamed the companies, Giuliani and Powell should certainly be held accountable.

    But how about their buddies over at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News? Should the network be punished, too, for airing the baseless allegations? After all, Fox News featured numerous news

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