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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Fox News asks judge to dismiss renewed defamation lawsuit filed by man at the center of Jan. 6 ‘false flag’ conspiracy theory

Fox News wants a federal court to put an end to an Arizona man’s lawsuit over comments made by Tucker Carlson about his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

James Ray Epps, in a series of increasingly escalating legal maneuvers, accused the network’s now-former talking head of painting him as an agent provocateur who “helped stage-manage” the abortive insurrection on behalf of the federal government as protests devolved into chaos. The plaintiff claims Carlson essentially promoted a conspiracy theory that bad-jacketed him as a government plant. Such allegations are often referred to using the sub-term “fed-jacketing” in various online political discussion spaces.
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