Viewer confidence in Fox News has plummeted as the effects of a series of ongoing lawsuits continue to be felt on the network's coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
More than a fifth of Fox News viewers over the age of 18 say they have less faith in the network, according to Maru's public opinion poll commissioned by Variety's Intelligence Platform and released Thursday. It comes after court documents and text messages from broadcast hosts, producers and executives showed private condemnation of former President Donald Trump's 2020 'stolen election' claims, even as they made the same allegations publicly on air. . Overall, 21% of adult Fox viewers said they trust the network the least, compared to 12% of adults. Similarly, while 50 percent of Fox viewers still believe the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump, 13 percent said they "now don't believe the 2020 election was stolen because of voter fraud." ”, after NewsCorp CEO Robert Murdoch, you learned. Testimony discredited these theories by testifying in a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by voting machine company Dominion against the network.
The March 10-12 poll of 1,524 respondents also found that fewer than 10 percent of Fox viewers familiar with the lawsuits watched the network less than before. That number appears to have been offset by other gains in viewership, resulting in no net change for Fox and "no advertising impact, no suspended or suspended advertisers," according to a statement from a Variety spokesperson. As a result, "more than half of Fox News viewers who said they were aware of the shutdown and reports said they still trust Fox News," according to Variety . "Almost twice as many as those who trust the network the least."
While the revelations about Dominion's lawsuit may have little impact on Fox's bottom line, it appears the network has been working to distance itself from the former boss, whose preposterous allegations propelled the lawsuit to its inception.
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