Sean Dodson, Leeds Beckett University
Buzzfeed News, once a shining star of digital journalism, has announced it will shut its award-winning news division for good, laying off about 60 journalists in a move its founding editor, Ben Smith, described as “the end of the marriage between social media and news”.
April 27, 2023 /Media/ — In 2023, Fox News was sued by Dominion Voting Systems for defamation after the network and its hosts, including Tucker Carlson, repeatedly aired false claims that the company’s voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. As part of the lawsuit, Dominion subpoenaed a trove of internal text messages and emails from Fox News employees.
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