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    Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion's defamation suit

    How do you solve a problem like Maria Bartiromo? Fox News executives may be asking themselves that question as she emerges as a central figure in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation suit against the conservative news network. In released court documents and deposition testimony connected to the case, Bartiromo is cited throughout for allowing former President Donald Trump's false ...
    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Mar 09, 2023 6 minutes
    Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Nov. 7, 2019 in New York City.

    How do you solve a problem like Maria Bartiromo?

    Fox News executives may be asking themselves that question as she emerges as a central figure in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation suit against the conservative news network.

    In released court documents and deposition testimony connected to the case, Bartiromo is cited throughout for allowing former President Donald Trump's false claims about 2020 election fraud to air on the network in an effort to stop angry viewers from abandoning the network.

    Falsehoods such as the claim that the Denver-based voting machine maker was founded in Venezuela to aid Hugo Chávez and that its software manipulated votes to favor Joe Biden went unchallenged on the network in the weeks after the election, despite evidence to the contrary.

    Court testimony shows that in the days leading up to and following the 2020 election, colleagues and executives raised questions about Bartiromo's online activity and expressed concerns that she was influenced by right-wing conspiracy theorists.

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