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Fox News employees expressed concerns network was intentionally aiding Trump, legal filings reveal

Media | The Guardian · Jeremy Barr in Washington · last updated

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.

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