
Fox News and The Big Lie
After the 2020 election, Donald Trump and his allies pushed baseless claims that the vote had been stolen, and Fox News aired many of those claims to its own audience even as some hosts and executives privately doubted them. This film traces how that decision unfolded on air and off, drawing on network communications, on-air segments, and interviews to show the gap between what Fox personalities said to viewers and what they said in private texts and emails. It follows the fallout into the courts, where Dominion Voting Systems sued the network over the fraud claims made about its machines, a case that ended in a massive settlement and exposed internal deliberations at the highest levels of Fox News and its parent company. The film treats the episode as a case study in how a major news organization weighed audience retention against factual accuracy, and what happened when that bet collided with a defamation lawsuit and public scrutiny.