On November 4, 2020, Porter Berry, head of Fox News Digital, sent a text to Fox News host Sean Hannity and his producers in which one of the producers sent a Mediaite article that reported a protest by Trump supporters chanting Fox News sucks to which Hannity responded, OMG. (Ex. 190; Ex. 109 at 73:9-75:12, 76:3-77:7; see also Ex. 191 (Mediaite article).
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Fox News anchor Bret Baier was reportedly concerned by colleague Maria Bartiromo's election fraud claims in 2020, warning an executive at the network, We need to fact-check this crap, according to newly-released text messages. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported on a newly-unredacted court filing by voting technology company Smartmatic which is currently suing Fox News for defamation revealing a number of text messages sent by Fox News hosts to colleagues at the cable television news network.