A former Fox News producer has amended her testimony in the defamation lawsuit against the network, claiming she was forced by corporate lawyers to give misleading answers.

Abby Grossberg was fired by Fox News days later on Friday

she applied

her lawsuit in New York and Delaware for alleged discrimination based on gender, religion and disability.

Her lawsuit alleges she was bullied and subjected to sexist and

antisemiticantisemitic

comments while working as head of booking for the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight.

to a modified lawsuit,

which changes some of the answers she gave in the testimony she gave last year,

was submitted Monday

which changes some of the answers she gave in the testimony she gave last year

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Grossberg had moved into a role as head booking on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” last year after working as a senior booking producer for Sunday Morning Futures, the weekly show hosted by Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo’s program plays a prominent role in Dominion Voting Systems

$1.6 billion

defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages, alleging Fox News deliberately aired the former president

Donald

Trump’s false allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election to placate viewers, who fled the network in anger at how it called the state of Arizona for President Biden.

Guests on Fox News made false claims

about

Dominion’s property and

said

that his machines were used to manipulate votes to favor President Biden. Fox News has maintained

That

the allegations were newsworthy and

That

its reporting is protected by the 1st Amendment.

A Fox News representative said in a statement that Grossberg was fired last week for disclosing privileged corporate information in her lawsuit. Last week, our attorneys informed Ms. Grossberg that while she was free to file any legal claim she chose, she was in possession of our privileged information and was not authorized to disclose it,” the spokesman said. representative. if she violated our instructions, Fox would take appropriate action, including termination. Ms. Grossberg ignored these communications and chose to file her complaint without taking any steps to protect those portions of Fox’s privileged information. The statement also reiterated the company’s claim that Grossberg’s claim is laced with false allegations against Fox and our employees.

Grossberg said Fox News lawyers manipulated her testimony to create the false narrative that nothing is falling through the cracks at Fox News and misrepresents her as an inept journalist who ignored pertinent warnings from Dominion and disregarded the truth.

She also said she was told to downplay the importance of ratings at Fox News, despite her knowledge that Bartiromo was obsessed with it.

Grossberg’s amended complaint

submitted on Monday

claims she was forced by lawyers not to discuss her workload on the program, where Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell were given free rein to present false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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said Fox News lawyers instructed her during preliminary sessions to play down how overworked and understaffed she was, and to downplay her actual position on the network.

The amended lawsuit said Grossberg’s testimony

,

as fabricated by Fox News, placed her and Bartiromo squarely on the frontline of the Dominion/Fox lawsuit so they could be scapegoated as sacrificial lambs.

Grossberg’s lawsuit contained corrections to her testimony, which

now

detail

sed

how her workload hindered her ability to research guests and verify information presented on “Sunday Morning Futures”.

In her testimony last year, Grossberg said she felt no obligation to correct guest misinformation on Sunday Morning Futures. In her testimony last year, Grossberg was asked if she felt obligated to correct guest misinformation on Sunday Morning Futures. She said no.

Grossberg’s submission has been amended

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her response to say, “Yes, because (‘Sunday Morning Futures’) was an interview show, Maria tried to get to the bottom of stories through conversation, and while our guests were entitled to answer how they wanted, it was Maria’s responsibility to contradict untrue statements of fact, or follow-up questions, which I always prepared for her.”

Grossberg also changed an answer

on a question

about whether she and Bartiromo were “open and honest with each other” when they worked together.

“I tried to be open and honest with her, but I don’t believe Maria Bartiromo was always open and honest with me,” Grossberg said in her revised testimony.

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answer when asked if she trusted the producers she worked with at Fox News.

Grossberg replaced her answer of “yes” with: “No, I don’t trust all the producers at Fox … they are activists, not journalists and impose their political agendas on the program

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As for the reason behind her previous impeachment answers,

Grossberg said

her previous answers

were “based on what I understood and took away from the deposition preparation sessions I had with the Fox legal team, which were coercive and intimidating.”

“I felt I had to do everything possible to avoid becoming Dominion’s ‘key witness’ or I would seriously jeopardize my career at Fox News and be subject to worse working conditions than male employees as I understood it,”

she said. A statement from a Fox News representative said Grossberg was fired last week for disclosing privileged corporate information in her lawsuit. Last week, our attorneys informed Ms. Grossberg that while she was free to file any legal claim she wanted, she was in possession of our privileged information and was not authorized to disclose it,” the representative said.” It was clear to us that if she violated our instructions, Fox would take appropriate action, including termination. Ms. Grossberg ignored these communications and chose to file her complaint without taking any steps to protect those portions of Fox’s privileged information. The statement also reiterated the company’s claim that Grossberg’s claim is laced with false allegations against Fox and our employees.