In the virtual hearing, which went awry when another alleged Capitol rioter interrupted with obscenities, Antonio’s attorney, Joseph Hurley, claimed that Fox News’s decision to regularly air then-President Donald Trump’s false claims of mass election fraud contributed to Antonio’s decision to participate in the insurrection. Fox News also faces billion-dollar lawsuits from voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, which allege the network knowingly aired false claims that the voting machines were rigged. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/07/fox-news-anthony-antonio-capitol-riot/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/07/fox-news-anthony-antonio-capitol-riot/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook)