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Treczoks t1_j62vi3g wrote

What exactly are they looking for? This whole lawsuit is not about freedom of speech, it is about knowingly spreading misinformation for commercial gain, and about the damages these lies caused to others.

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homer1229 t1_j63kyzx wrote

Unsealing the docs may show that Fox people knew they weren't being honest. That said, I think news orgs asking for release of sealed material is basically SOP (e.g. footage of Paul Pelosi attack).

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SnakeDoctur t1_j6536g7 wrote

Hate to break it to ya the entire MAGA movement knew it was total horseshit all along. They just wanted to overthrow our government and install a Christian Theocracy and "election fraud" was a convenient excuse

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Q_OANN t1_j65a0ei wrote

We have the evidence already from their shows spreading the information compared to texts we’ve seen from a few of them saying they knew it wasn’t legit

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gecko090 t1_j6ib2yk wrote

It's already known that at the same time Fox was promoting the conspiracy against Dominion, Dominion was communicating with Fox to get a rebuttal aired.

Fox ignored them.

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jonathanrdt t1_j63pwtn wrote

They want to publish stories so they can get eyeballs to ads. That’s what news is and does. Gotta get the dirt so you can get the eyeballs.

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Shlocktroffit t1_j6466kh wrote

This is an important point that a lot of people don't understand...newspapers are ads surrounded with some engaging content.

The advertising is what earns the money. If surrounding the ads with nothing but stories about cats and cat pictures got people to look at the newspapers then that's exactly what the publishers would do. But people want to read about the misfortunes of others and dirt on celebrities so that's what they print. They're not inherently interested in reporting on useful information. Just selling ad space.

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Ansuz07 t1_j647at6 wrote

> newspapers are ads surrounded with some engaging content.

Yup. Ads are the product - news is what gets you to consume them.

I had a buddy that worked in TV advertising who used to joke that tv shows were just the filler they put between commercials. The commercials are the actual point of the broadcast.

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