AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch answered questions under oath for hours this week. Those doing the questioning were lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, an election tech company. It has sued Murdoch's Fox News for $1.6 billion, accusing the network of defamation following the 2020 presidential election. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik is covering the case and joins us now. Welcome to the show.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: Thanks, Ayesha.
RASCOE: So Rupert Murdoch doesn't submit to questioning every day of the week. What did Dominion's legal team ask him about?
FOLKENFLIK: Sure. Well, you know, this case is about these statements that stemmed from the Election Day and the weeks following in which President Trump's surrogates and even President Trump himself came on the air and made these wild, baseless and untrue assertions about Dominion Voting Systems trying to throw the election to Joe Biden. You know, they've alleged this essentially widespread plan throughout the network to try to regain viewers after they had called Arizona for Joe Biden before pretty much anyone else. And they're trying to see the extent to which Rupert Murdoch himself was involved in shaping coverage, in saying, look. We know Trump lost, but we've got to serve our viewers and allow these wild claims and false claims of fraud to continue on our air.
RASCOE: So where does the case stand right now?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, we've learned a lot over the course of this deposition process....
FDA and consumer protection officials suspended production at a Samut Sakhon canned fish factory after alleged false labelling Thai food and consumer protection authorities have ordered a canned f...