The online news publication has added a new defence in the defamation lawsuit brought against it by the Fox Corporation chief executive.
in its amended defence to the defamation suit filed by the elder son of Rupert Murdoch, in an escalation of the dispute between the parties.about Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 presidential election as part of its amended defence, which adds a new defence known as contextual truth.
over a June 29, 2022 article naming his family as “unindicted co-conspirators” of Trump following the US Capitol riots in 2021. For this defence to succeed, the court would need to be satisfied that a finding of moral or ethical culpability for the riots was as damaging to Murdoch’s reputation as any of the other meanings it found the article conveyed, such as alleged criminality.that there would be an application to strike out the contextual truth defence., said in court earlier this month that the news outlet would seek to rely in part on material that has emerged inDominion is suing Fox for $US1.
It alleges Lachlan Murdoch knew the claim that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen from Trump was being promoted by presenters and guests of Fox News because he was watching the coverage, was directly involved in the news programming and was providing feedback on tone to Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott.