Survey responses cited in $2.7bn defamation lawsuit filed against Fox by voting technology company Smartmatic
Multiple Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings.
The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic.
The comments come from an anonymous internal survey – the “Fox News 2020 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey” – of 1,040 employees conducted between 24 August 2020 and 8 September 2020. Several employees expressed concerns that the network was intentionally aiding Donald Trump and the Republican party.
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 151 pts · 292d
I'm sorry, were you confused about where you work? It's like complaining about the workplace being "too spooky" while working at Spirit Halloween. Fucking idiots.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 292d
'Im concerned this meat grinding facility doesnt support animals rights.'
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 292d
This Tyson facility is vegan, right?
muxika@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 292d
That's fucking hilarious.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 292d
Alright, you win comment of the day for me, that was a great analogy.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 74 pts · 292d
Anyone working at Fox News who thinks they're involved in reputable journalism clearly doesn't have the objectivity needed for proper reporting.
Today@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 292d
Didn't they say, "we're entertainment, not news" ?
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 11 pts · 292d
Tucker Carlson defending himself, he claimed a playboy model tried to extort trump.
Fox's legal team argued that his comments couldn't reasonably be considered factual, and that any viewer should be skeptical about what he says.
That was on his show though, not the news program.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 290d
Its a good thing fox news cultivates a viewership not made of reasonable people.
Imo, there should be a law in defamation cases like this where a network's viewers could be polled to see if they actually believe these things and show its malicious on those grounds.
Corporations should be punished for cultivating dumb audiences and lying to them. Cities should be able to sue news companies if they, for instance, impart the impression crime rates have gone up instead of down.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 292d
The pure distillation of useful idiot
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 292d
I'm sure they have plenty of employees we don't see who aren't journalists.
In addition to the people we DO see who also aren't journalists.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 292d
especially creeps like jesse watters, and working for a ghoul like rupert and son.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 292d
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 292d
It's bad when people who wilfully and knowingly work for Team Evil, start reporting that things are a little too fucked up for their liking.
Triumph@fedia.io · 22 pts · 292d
Kind of like when everyone went "We're all for exploiting and enslaving people, but for fuck's sake, Columbus."
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d
This all reminds me of John Rabe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 290d
Which is pretty much what Ferdinand and Isabella did when they removed him from his post as governor of Hispaniola and brought him back to Spain in chains.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 292d
hopesdead@startrek.website · 33 pts · 292d
Hey, I still firmly believe that the network was somehow connected to the election of George W. Bush. How else do you explain a Bush relative working for the network and the network being the first to call the race hours before any other outlet would call it for Bush.
So I’m far from surprised they would outright aid a President and their party.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 292d
I mean - helping republicans to do what they’re doing was always the goal - it’s the founding principle. Anyone who wasn’t aware must have been a child or not born at the time.
It’s never been in doubt.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d
I was a baby during Watergate, and I know that.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 292d
and fox working behind the scenes with the 1/6 insurrection, at least laura ingarham was involved with mark meadows on what to and how to frame the "Riot" if antifa showed up.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 292d
standing outside and watching flames engulf my home
Golly, you know, I think this fire might be trying to damage my house!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 292d
“Are we the baddies?”
njm1314@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 292d
Oh is the network literally started to become a propaganda wing of the Republican Party pushing a political bias?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 292d
Thanks captain obvious
ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 290d
This is getting a workout lately.
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 292d
Trying to set up plausible deniability? There's no way these social fabric ripping fuck heads don't know exactly what they are doing.
I would call the decisions made in horror movies smart and well thought out ages before I believe this crock of absolutely intelligence insulting bullshit.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
For real. Thats like working at a gun factory and after years expressing concern thats it might be harmful.
jankforlife@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 292d
They were a little slow getting there, but its the spirit that counts!
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
I refuse to count the spirit!!!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
Yeah really. That ship has sailed and sunk.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 290d
Concerns? Expressed them? What. The. Fuck. Are you talking about?
Fox News has been a propaganda cha nel for the gop for two decades, it's internationally renowned for its huge quantities of absolute bullshit that it manages to spew all day, every day...
And then you want to voice... Concerns? And you THINK it might intentionally aide trump?
Are you high?
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 290d
Shocker.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 290d
Every day news USA!
_core@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 290d
That's every mainstream media outlet, not just Fox.