Rupert Murdoch faces further legal trouble as fellow Fox Corporation investors seek to hold him personally liable for the network's promotion of false claims about the 2020 US election. Despite a $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, investors argue that Murdoch and the Fox Corp board are responsible for the damage caused by broadcasting demonstrably false election fraud claims.
Rupert Murdoch has sailed into the new year with more bad news in tow, even as the media mogul strives to resolve the succession struggle that threatens the future of his empire.
Rupert Murdoch will not escape the legal repercussions of Fox News’ reporting of claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.At the heart of the issue is what role the Murdochs, and Fox Corp board members, played as the network struggled to keep faith with right-wing viewers who were deserting it after it dithered over the issue in the days following the 2020 election result.
On December 27, vice chancellor J. Travis Laster, of Delaware’s Chancery Court, found that investors had sufficiently argued that Murdoch faces a “substantial likelihood” of being found liable for allowing Fox News to broadcast defamatory content about voting machine maker Smartmatic.Trump’s unwillingness to believe his 2020 loss prompted him to encourage supporters to head to the US Capitol, which they stormed.
His plan was to ensure Lachlan retained control after his father’s death – rather than splitting control with his three eldest siblings – and ensuring News Corp and Fox retained their conservative positioning.
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