Backstabber Watch

For Boris Johnson, a student of history, it must have been déjà vu all over again. The former British Prime Minister visited Republicans — his “fellow conservatives” — on Capitol Hill a few weeks ago and came away shocked that so many were rooting for Putin to crush the Ukrainian democracy...

A defamation lawsuit against Fox News by voting machine company Smartmatic appears to be headed to trial after the New York Supreme Court gave the green light last week.An analysis by The Guardian found that the $2.7 billion lawsuit could be "more dangerous" than the $1.6 billion lawsuit...

Fox News believes that its own viewers are "uninformed simpletons" — and is constantly working to pander to them, but powerless to truly control them, argued former right-wing media consultant and The Young Turks contributor Matthew Sheffield in a Twitter thread on Thursday.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has lost control of his top-rated hosts at a crucial time for his Fox News network which has seen its credibility torn asunder by revelations they pushed 2020 election conspiracy lies while privately acknowledging they knew better.In a column for Bloomberg, 

In a conversation with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday, former FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, suggested that "more" charges might be coming "on the criminal side" for Fox News. Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, he focused more on the idea of legal consequences that Fox News could face...

Dominion Voting Systems has evidence that network personalities knew the Trump team's claims were false. That puts them outside press freedom protections.

The media industry's Editor and Publisher magazine released its cover story Monday about the Fox News empire and their efforts to "deliver cheap, expedient, viscerally-agitating content instead of the journalism its viewers need and deserve."

Fox News is likely to pay out a massive settlement to make the $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems go away, media consultant Richard Tofel wrote Wednesday on his Substack.

In a broad conversation about the national security implications of lies told by Fox News on the United States, former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi connected the dots between the conservative network and violence in the country. 

In a shamelessly dishonest broadcast, the Fox News host portrayed Capitol insurrectionists as innocent “sightseers” who were taking out their anger over an election that had been “unfairly conducted.” Don't believe that for a second.

OXON HILL, Md. — Pillow magnate Mike Lindell was on hand at CPAC on Thursday, where he blasted Fox News in a conversation with reporters. This week, court filings were released in the case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, revealing News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch...

A recent filing in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network spotlights problematic editorial decisions that came from the very top.

Political strategist Chai Komanduri tore into Fox News on MSNBC Friday, accusing them of "arrogance" for their repeated baseless on-air insinuations that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election — a matter at the heart of that company's $1.6 billion defamation suit...

A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected the attempt of Fox News to throw out a defamation lawsuit. Fox News is being accused of intentionally spreading lies through their various media platforms that a voting-technology company helped "steal" the 2020 election...

The 2022 midterms may be remembered as the worst humiliation that Fox News has suffered since 2012, when pundits at the right-wing cable news channel spent weeks insisting that then-President Barack Obama would be voted out of office — only for Obama to win a decisive reelection victory.