Why Dominion is already the winner of the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox News

Messages proving network hosts and executives knew what they were saying was false and reckless' are now on record forever

As Fox News continued to broadcast lies about Dominion voting systems and the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson, one of its star hosts used one word over and over to describe what the network was doing - reckless".

Those messages were the first pieces of evidence Justin Nelson, a lawyer representing Dominion, displayed on Tuesday as he began his argument for why a judge should rule the network defamed his client. Reckless was a meaningful word" - in order to win the case, Nelson has to prove that Fox acted with actual malice" - that its hosts, producers, and executives knew the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth.