Tucker Carlson, Fox News part ways: ‘We thank him for his service’ – National | 24CA News
Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to half methods, the media firm stated in an announcement on Monday, lower than every week after Fox News and dad or mum firm Fox Corp FOXA.O settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.
The settlement averted a trial placing one of many world’s prime media corporations within the crosshairs over its protection of false vote-rigging claims within the 2020 U.S. election.
Carlson had been anticipated to testify within the Dominion trial. Dominion had alleged that statements made on Carlson’s present after the 2020 election had been defamatory and that messages between Carlson and his workforce had been proof that he and his workforce knew the falsehood of claims that Denver-based Dominion’s ballot-counting machines had been used to control the election in favour of Democrat Joe Biden.
Carlson beforehand was a bunch of Fox News Channel’s cable news program, Tucker Carlson Tonight, which launched in November 2016.
Carlson’s final program was April 21, the corporate stated in an announcement. It stated that Fox News Tonight will air reside at 8 p.m. EST beginning Monday night as an interim present helmed by rotating Fox News personalities till a brand new host is called.
In the assertion, Fox News stated, “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
