“It settled on Ray Epps and began promoting the lie that Epps was a federal agent who incited the attack on the Capitol.” ‘Years-long campaign’Ĭarlson, America’s most popular television anchor, “commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps”, the lawsuit stated, accusing him of working as a government agent who “helped stage-manage” the Capitol riots.įox sacked Carlson in April, a decision Mr Epps speculates in his lawsuit “rested on Carlson’s defamatory attacks” on him. “Fox knew it needed a scapegoat for Jan 6,” the complaint stated. Mr Epps’s complaint was filed in the same court in Delaware where Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million (£631 million) earlier this year to settle a separate defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems over claims the network was pushing election conspiracies. It is the latest legal fallout from the cable network’s amplification of conspiracy theories in the weeks after the 2020 election. Ray Epps said the widespread conspiracy theory about his role in the attack in Washington DC forced him and his wife to sell their home and business and hire private security after he received death threats. A former US Marine has filed a lawsuit accusing Fox News and its former star anchor Tucker Carlson of promoting false claims that he was an undercover government agent who instigated the Capitol riots.
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