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But who would sue them for this? They aren't blaming devices or companies here. They're blaming Biden, DOJ, the system and anything else in the government they can.
I imagine that leading up to the election, they don't want to show a pattern of unsubstantiated false election claims, since that can be used as evidence if later there is a claim by a host or guest which names a company directly that can be used in a lawsuit.
If such a lawsuit were to happen, they can point to this instance and claim that they tried their hardest to stop the unsubstantiated claims (even cutting off the former president), and it's not a systemic issue in the network.
Have not them been successfully sued in the past for propagation of lies about election?
They spent millions in the past establishing that they are entertainment not news and thus cannot be held accountable or some such shit.
And still got sued. https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
And almost again https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/politics/hunter-biden-fox-nation-series-removed/index.html
By voting machine companies.
Lots of people invested in the fact that happened. Trump can blame the government all he wants. As long as he doesn't super obviously foment violence then he's not getting sued.
Same with Fox.
If Fox decides to malign corps or non-public people, then they may be sued. You can lie about the President and DOJ all day without commuting a crime or standing for a lawsuit.
Fox doesn't want to be dragged into that lawsuit for enabling Trump.
And they know that when he gets on one of his rants, it can go off the rails in all sorts of unpredictable (and legally risky) ways.
Where they slandered voting machine companies? Yes.
That's not what they're doing now. At least, not yet.
This time they'll blame a corrupt government.
Does the corrupt government alter vote counts? Or how does that work?
It works by allowing undocumented workers to vote by mail as often as they'd like.
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