It's been said that a cultural artifact of the pandemic era was "oversharing". People just being incredibly candid and loose with their personal feelings. And it's just bonkers how that has played out in the legal arena. I'm thinking in particular of the Dominion lawsuit against Fox where they just had all those texts admitting in completely uncoded direct language that they were lying on purpose.
I would ascribe that to a slightly different phenomena: Trump-era impunity. That was the point that people started doing all kinds of things that were previously Not Done and getting away with them.
Fox could have carried on lying forever if they'd remembered not to libel a business, only individuals and minority groups.
