Former Fox "News" / Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg is $12 million richer after her case against the right-wing propaganda outlet was settled out of court. Grossberg had sued them for discrimination and coercion over false testimony given in the Dominion Voting Systems case. Fox was promoting the Malignant Loser's Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him. Former Fox host and Putin stooge Tucker Carlson was part of Grossberg's lawsuit. The Associated Press reports:
"Grossberg said in a statement that while she stands by claims she made in her Manhattan lawsuit and another lawsuit in the Delaware State Superior Court, she was 'heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously. I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace.'
The Manhattan lawsuit claimed that Fox’s legal team 'coerced, intimidated, and misinformed' Grossberg during preparations for her testimony in a legal battle between the network and Dominion, an elections technology company. [snip]
In her federal lawsuit, Grossberg asserted that Carlson’s show had a cruel and misogynistic workplace, and that she had been pressured to give misleading testimony during a pretrial deposition in the Dominion case.
As Grossberg noted in the lawsuit, Dominion had quoted from her deposition in one of its pretrial court filings to support its position that Fox News hosts, producers and executives knew statements about the 2020 election being 'stolen' from President Donald Trump were false or recklessly disregarded the truth." (our emphasis)
Fox had to pay a staggering $787 million in damages in April for defaming Dominion Voting Systems by repeatedly broadcasting lies that the company had rigged the 2020 election in favor of President Biden. A similar lawsuit by another voting machine company, Smartmatic, is also suing Fox for $2.7 billion for defamation in relation to lies about their machines rigging the 2020 election.
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