>What Dominion is saying

“Fox knew. From the top down, Fox knew ‘the Dominion stuff’ was ‘total BS,’” attorneys for Denver-based Dominion said. “Yet despite knowing the truth — or at minimum, recklessly disregarding that truth — Fox spread and endorsed these ‘outlandish voter fraud claims’ about Dominion even as it internally recognized the lies as ‘crazy,’ ‘absurd,’ and ‘shockingly reckless.’ The colorful choices of words used by so many Fox employees all try to capture the same basic truth about these inherently improbable allegations: These claims were false, and obviously so.

“Broadcasters make choices about what to air. While that platform comes with tremendous power, it also carries an obligation to tell the truth,” Dominion’s lawyers continued. “Fox knew the truth, knew the allegations against Dominion were outlandish and crazy and ludicrous and nuts. Yet it used the power and influence of its platform to promote that false story.”

>What Fox News is saying

“There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion,” Fox News said in a statement, “but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution.”

In a counterclaim, also unsealed Thursday, attorneys for the cable news giant argued that the network was simply “reporting on one of the biggest stories of the day — allegations by the sitting President of the United States and his surrogates that the 2020 election was affected by fraud. The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy.”

“According to Dominion, [Fox News Network] had a duty not to truthfully report the President’s allegations but to suppress them or denounce them as false,” Fox’s attorneys wrote. “Dominion is fundamentally mistaken. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side.”

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