Survey responses cited in $2.7bn defamation lawsuit filed against Fox by voting technology company Smartmatic

Multiple 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.

The comments come from an anonymous internal survey – the “Fox News 2020 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey” – of 1,040 employees conducted between 24 August 2020 and 8 September 2020. Several employees expressed concerns that the network was intentionally aiding Donald Trump and the Republican party.

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    10 hours ago

    expressed concerns

    Concerns? Expressed them? What. The. Fuck. Are you talking about?

    Fox News has been a propaganda cha nel for the gop for two decades, it’s internationally renowned for its huge quantities of absolute bullshit that it manages to spew all day, every day…

    And then you want to voice… Concerns? And you THINK it might intentionally aide trump?

    Are you high?