• robocall@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Fox doesn’t want to have to state the fact that the election wasn’t stolen in contradiction to Trump, so they rather cut away before he says it.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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        5 months ago

        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.

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        5 months ago

        Have not them been successfully sued in the past for propagation of lies about election?