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Tucker Carlson

Included on the basis of: Associated participant / materially involved — Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC (2021–2023)

This inclusion basis documents a material connection to a qualifying record above; it does not classify Tucker Carlson as an extremist or as anti-democratic, or assert that they personally meet any of ExtremismLedger's inclusion criteria.

Fox News primetime host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" from 2016 until his departure from the network in April 2023.

Documented claims

Documented fact 04/24/2023

Fox announced on April 24, 2023 that it had parted ways with Carlson, one week after the $787.5 million Dominion settlement; Fox executives Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdoch were reported to have made the decision. Both Fox and Dominion have stated Carlson's departure was not a condition of the settlement.

Documented fact 11/01/2021

In November 2021, a three-part Fox Nation documentary series, "Patriot Purge," aired under a content deal involving Carlson, characterizing January 6, 2021 as potentially a government "false flag" operation and warning of an impending "manhunt" against conservatives. Fact-checking organizations found the series contained falsehoods and unsupported conspiracy theories.

Documented fact 11/16/2020

Private text messages made public in the Dominion litigation show Carlson repeatedly and contemporaneously disputing Sidney Powell's election-fraud claims: on November 16, 2020 he told his producer "Sidney Powell is lying," texted Laura Ingraham "Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It's insane," and texted Powell directly, "You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software ... If you don't have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it's a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying."

Relationships

Confirmed Associated with incident — Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC (2021–2023) (Named in litigation discovery; documented private communications challenged the claims at issue)
Confirmed Other — Fox News Network (Host, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Fox News, 2016–2023))

01/01/2016 – 04/24/2023