Fox News hosts knew the voter fraud conspiracies they repeated ad nauseam after the 2020 presidential election were false, yet pushed them anyway in a bid to improve the right-wing networks ratings, newly released court filings allege.

The 192-page document , produced as part of an ongoing $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems , features what it says are comments and text messages between senior Fox News executives and the networks star hosts.

In private, the document purports to show that the networks top decision makers and on-air talent slammed the various voter fraud allegations and election lies which they then proceeded to spread via their own programming.

Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. Its insane, Fox star Tucker Carlson allegedly texted fellow host Laura Ingraham in November 2020, referring to Donald Trump s campaign lawyer.

According to the court document, Ingraham replied: Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].

Its unbelievably offensive to me, Carlson allegedly wrote back. Our viewers are good people and they believe it.

Days later, in a message to someone whose name is redacted in the court document, Carlson allegedly said it was shockingly reckless to claim that Dominion rigged the election if there was no actual evidence or documentation showing they did it. As you know there isnt, Carlson added.

Thats a strikingly different tone than the one he struck in a group text including fellow host Sean Hannity , in which Carlson attacked a Fox News reporter whod fact-checked a Trump tweet about Dominion. In that message, according to the court document, he called for the reporter to be fired.