Rupert Murdoch

Media mogul's admission in Dominion Systems election case that he let cable network broadcast falsehoods stuns observers.

“It opens the door to litigation from shareholders, given that their own board member tried to stop this.” “He thought he was untouchable.” RonNell Andersen Jones, a media law professor at the University of Utah, said that the deposition could prove highly damaging in the ongoing Dominion case. Murdoch tried to make a distinction between the hosts – “commentators” he called them – who were making false claims of election fraud and Fox itself. The depositions revealed that Ryan had implored Murdoch to “move on from Donald Trump and stop spouting election lies”. “It’s a license to print money,” he said. The word “endorsed” in Murdoch’s deposition could be critical. We are going to see a migration now of Fox News viewers to even further-right outlets like Newsmax and OANN.” “It is stunning, as it not only exposes a lot about how Fox works, it opens them up to potentially cascading litigation and liability.” “They admittedly engaged in fraud and lied to their audience.” “This is so profoundly cynical, and deeply corrosive to the role of the largest cable news network in the country,” Wilson remarked. Media and legal experts told the Guardian that, partly as a result of his stunning testimony, Murdoch can now expect potentially severe injury to both.

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News Network and its parent, Fox Corp., for $1.6 billion for what Dominion asserts was defamation.

Dominion attorneys contend that executives in the "chain of command" at both Fox News and Fox Corp. "Dominion repeatedly asked Fox News executives, hosts, and staff whether Fox Corporation employees played a role in the publication of the statements it challenges," they wrote. The "handful of selective quotes" cited by Dominion have nothing to do with the statements that Dominion has challenged as defamatory, according to Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he didn't step in to stop them from promoting the claims, according to excerpts of a deposition unsealed Monday. Murdoch urged in September 2020, weeks before the election, that Dobbs be fired because he was "an extremist," according to Dominion's court filing. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol disclosed that many of Trump's top advisers repeatedly warned him that the allegations he was making about fraud were false - and yet the president continued making the claims.

I don't know how they manage it,” the media mogul said, of inveterate truthtellers. “I've told the truth once, and I don't intend to do it again.”

I’ve told the truth once, and I don’t intend to do it again.” “It was beyond beastly.” The media mogul disclosed that, when he was asked to raise his right hand and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, “I thought I was going to be sick.”

Rupert Murdoch has acknowledged that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen.

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Trump lashed out at Rupert Murdoch after the Fox Corp. chairman admitted in sworn testimony has anchors lied about election fraud.

6](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jan-6/) attack on the Capitol. Nevertheless, despite Trump’s rage at Murdoch’s admission that Fox openly lies to its viewers, his allies in Congress know the network is still the most effective pusher of pro-Trump propaganda. The deposition stems from a defamation suit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems, which alleges the network knowingly misled the public about claims of fraud in the [2020 election](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/2020-election/). “FoxNews is promoting Ron DeSanctus so hard and so much that there’s not much time left for Real News,” Trump complained, accusing the network of downplaying his own popularity with Republican primary voters. “They look too scared and frightened to reveal the massive amounts of voter fraud & Irregularities already found, and it would actually help them in the lawsuit. Instead FoxNews wants to silence its anchors and reporters, the reason so many of their viewers fled.”

Rupert Murdoch is in the headlines again, this time because of a lawsuit over Fox News's coverage of the 2020 election. It's not the only legal battle ...

[the 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News's election-fraud claims](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158223099/fox-news-dominion-wackadoodle-election-fraud-claim). [but that suit is not as far along as Dominion's](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1156610403/dominion-voting-vs-fox-news-judge-smartmatic-newsmax). [off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020). [suing an online publisher in Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/lachlan-murdoch-claims-crikey-benefited-from-defamation-case/101906200)for defamation over a June 2022 article that referred to the Murdoch family as "unindicted co-conspirators" in the Jan. [hacking into people's phones](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/19/138503742/live-murdoch-others-testify-on-u-k-tabloid-scandal). [were endorsing lies from then-President Donald Trump, and that he chose not to take action to stop it](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud). [lawyers for the outlet are assessing whether the Dominion case could affect it](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/01/crikey-examines-rupert-murdochs-admission-that-fox-news-hosts-endorsed-us-election-lie). Fox News has played, by far, the largest single part in the polarization of American politics, in the amplification of political hatred. and Fox News said the Dominion lawsuit was more about generating headlines than what "can withstand legal and factual scrutiny": Lachlan Murdoch filed the suit the day after the news site paid for an advertisement in The New York Times challenging him to do so, so that it could use the case to test Australia's defamation laws. Murdoch is known to be a hands-on proprietor of his news outlets. This isn't the first time Murdoch's media empire has come under scrutiny.

In a defamation lawsuit, Mr Murdoch conceded some Fox hosts had "endorsed" baseless claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen by voter fraud. On social ...

He said that he had told Mr Kushner he could not change the outcome for Mr Trump because "the numbers are the numbers". After Fox was first to declare that Mr Biden had won the pivotal state of Arizona, Mr Murdoch said: "My friend Jared Kushner called me saying, 'This is terrible,' and I could hear Trump's voice in the background shouting". On Monday, a legal filing revealed that Mr Murdoch had told lawyers in the Dominion case that he did not believe Mr Trump's allegations of mass voter fraud and that he thought Fox News should have been "stronger in denouncing" them.

Murdoch's testimony has been unsealed as part of a defamation lawsuit brought by a US-based voting machine company.

“Dominion repeatedly asked Fox News executives, hosts, and staff whether Fox Corporation employees played a role in the publication of the statements it challenges,” they wrote. They say Dominion has produced “zero evidentiary support” for the claim that high-level executives at Fox Corporation had any role in creating or publishing the statements at issue. That was wrong, and for that, FC and FNN are both liable.” The documents also reveal that the Fox Corporation (FC) chairperson did not step in to stop them from promoting the unsubstantiated election claims. [Election deniers lose key races in US midterm elections](/news/2022/11/15/election-deniers-lose-key-races-in-us-midterm-elections?traffic_source=KeepReading) [Setbacks swamped Donald Trump in 2022. Fox News’s ratings plummeted after the network announced that Democrat

According to a new court filing, the Fox News owner passed “confidential information” about Joe Biden's campaign to the then first son-in-law and ...

“Well, the numbers are the numbers.” [The American West](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-right-civil-war?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723) During his under-oath deposition, Murdoch said that Kushner called him on election night about the network’s coverage and, with Trump in the background “shouting,” told him, “This is terrible.” Murdoch’s response? As a reminder, though, the organization in question purports to be in the “news” business. [bury](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/rupert-murdoch-donald-trump-arizona-2020) Trump’s 2020 election dreams in a shallow grave and subsequently [dump the ex-president for a younger model](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/donald-trump-midterms-fox-news-rupert-nyp-wsj-rupert-murdoch). And, as we learned late last night, the Australian media mogul was willing to go to great, wildly unethical lengths to keep Trump in power until the very end.