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Article snippet: Fox News on Wednesday urged a federal court to discipline a lawyer it said had failed to vet basic facts when he filed a lawsuit accusing the network of using fake Twitter accounts to harass a former host. In a court filing, lawyers representing Fox and two of the network’s top executives accused the lawyer, Judd Burstein, of making “outrageously and flagrantly” false claims on behalf of his client, the former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros. Ms. Tantaros has said that Twitter posts from so-called sock-puppet accounts were part of a concerted effort to silence her after she complained about sexual harassment by Mr. Ailes died this month. In the filing, in United States District Court in Manhattan, Fox said Mr. Burstein had failed to do basic research into one of the accounts he cited, which posted under the name Daniel Wayne Block. “One phone call would have proven that Mr. Block is alive and well and has no connection to Fox News, other than as a fan,” the filing said. Ms. Tantaros had said that several of Mr. Block’s Twitter posts showed that the network was eavesdropping on her calls, but Fox said that claim could easily be disproved by his posting history. “Mr. Block often sent the same or similar purportedly threatening images before the allegedly monitored telephone calls,” the filing said, citing several examples. Mr. Burstein called the filing “frivolous” and said the contradictions contained within inadvertently demonstrated the network’s guilt. “Fox News ... Link to the full article to read more