Fox News boss was angry with anchors for fact-checking Trump: ‘Bad for business’

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This is bad business and there is clearly a lack of understanding," Suzanne Scott said...

Fox News CEO wanted the reporters of the network to stop fact-checking former US president Donald Trump's statements on the 2020 elections, emails show..

Several media outlets reported the emails amid a defamation suit against voting machine company Dominion..

In the emails, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott wrote to Fox News Executive Vice President of Primetime Programming Meade Cooper demanding that the reporters must stop fact-checking Donald Trump's false claims...

Responding to the leaked emails, a Fox News representative said as per Newsweek, "Despite the noise and confusion that Dominion has generated by presenting cherry-picked quotes without context, this case is ultimately about the First Amendment protections of the media's absolute need to cover the news...