Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch testified that the TV network’s popular commentators “endorsed” Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential election.
Murdoch’s testimony was disclosed by Dominion in its fight against a request by Fox to get a judge to throw out the lawsuit.The New York Times
Documents in the case in Delaware State Court show Murdoch and other Fox executives believed Joe Biden fairly beat Donald Trump and that the results were not in doubt., the entirety of which Reuters has not viewed because it remains under seal.Dominion has argued that internal communications and depositions by Fox personnel prove the network knowingly spread falsehoods about Trump’s loss in the 2020 US presidential election in order to bolster its ratings.
“Executives at all levels of Fox – both and – knowingly opened Fox’s airwaves to false conspiracy theories about Dominion,” Dominion wrote in its filing.
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