William Barr: Blinded by resentment at Fox’s success as an alternative media voice, many media organizations offered a distorted narrative—largely parroting Dominion’s spin—that the disclosures doom Fox’s legal defense. A ruling against Fox would be a major blow to media freedoms, subjecting news outlets to possible outsize liabilities whenever they report on newsworthy allegations that turn out to be false.
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