News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is testifying Thursday and Friday in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News, a billion-dollar lawsuit that has ensnared some of the network’s biggest personalities over repeated statements after the 2020 election that falsely linked Dominion machines to fraud—including comments by both Fox News personalities and guests.
Dominion alleges in its lawsuit, which a Delaware state court allowed to move forward in December 2021, that Fox News and its anchors repeatedly and knowingly pushed false claims that linked Dominion voting machines to election fraud as a tactic to boost ratings, despite Dominion sending repeated letters to the network contesting its claims.
The network “made, endorsed and accepted” false claims about Dominion machines, the lawsuit alleges, through repeated interviews on its programs with far-right Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who pushed the Dominion fraud claims without anchors challenging them.
Powell told Maria Bartiromo there was “a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election” and “manufacture votes for Joe Biden,” told Sean Hannity the company “ran an algorithm that shaved off votes from then-President Donald Trump and awarded them to Biden” and claimed to Lou Dobbs that Trump’s “lead was so great … they had to stop the counting and come in and backfill the votes they needed to change the result,” according to the lawsuit.
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