In 2020, lawyers for Fox News argued in court that viewers of Tucker Carlson, the network’s top-rated host, should understand that what he says isn’t necessarily true.It was a strange, and successful, legal defense.
Carlson was being accused of slander, but the judge determined the “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary… Given Mr.