New court documents show that Rupert Murdoch and his top lieutenants at Fox News were aware that former President Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but agreed to give them continued coverage in an effort to keep unhappy viewers from fleeing.
The stunning revelations based on deposition testimony were in a brief filed Monday in Delaware State Court by Dominion Voting Systems, the latest salvo in the company's $1.6-billion defamation suit against the conservative news network.
The testimony by Murdoch and others at the company will add powerful evidence to what many 1st Amendment attorneys have said is among the strongest cases they have seen against a media organization. Dominion needs to prove that Fox News was reckless in knowingly spreading false information to show that the network acted with malice.
Fox News has maintained that its coverage and commentary of Trump's false allegations were newsworthy and therefore protected under the 1st Amendment.
In his depositions taken in mid-December, Murdoch acknowledged that he had the power to keep Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell from appearing on Fox News, where they spread misinformation about election fraud and falsely accused Dominion of using its machines to manipulate votes. But he chose not to exercise that power, even though behind the scenes he and others were aware that Trump's legal team was spreading lies and even questioned their sanity, according to the deposition.
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