How Fox News Begged D-List Right-Wingers to Defend Them

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Internal Fox News documents spilled in the channel’s legal fight with Dominion Voting Systems offer a rare glimpse into how the network’s infamously aggressive PR team led by Irena Briganti attempts to plant favorable stories among conservative allies.

Six days after the 2020 election, Fox was taking hits from its right-wing fanbase after being the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden. The network’s favorability ratings with its usual audience had plummeted, according to an internal report, as the network faced what the report called “extremely high levels of conservative discontent.”