Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged under oath that some Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ the notion that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, according to an unsealed court filing
When questioned, Murdoch said “some of commentators were endorsing” the narrative of a stolen election, including “maybe Lou Dobbs” and “maybe Maria .”
Dominion's reputation is also at stake as it seeks to recover from what it has described as irreparable harm to its business.A Fox News channel sign is seen at the News Corporation building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Murdoch testified that he believed early on that "everything was on the up-and-up" with the election, and that he doubted claims of election fraud from the very beginning.
In its own filing made public Monday, Fox argued that its coverage of statements by Trump and his lawyers were inherently newsworthy and that Dominion’s “extreme” interpretation of defamation law would “stop the media in its tracks.”
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