UPDATED with additional details, clarification of quote: Rupert Murdoch said in a recent deposition that he “would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing” Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theories that the Fox Corp. executive chairman at once called “bullsh*t and damaging.”
But he admitted that some Fox hosts “endorsed” those election fraud claims.
“Not Fox, no. Not Fox. But maybe Lou Dobbs, maybe Maria, as commentators,” Murdoch said in the deposition, referring to Lou Dobbs, a former Fox News host, and Maria Bartiromo, a current one.
The revelations came in the latest public disclosures made in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. (read the filing here). Dominion contends that, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Fox hosts amplified claims that it was involved in rigging the results, even though many hosts and executives didn’t believe such a scenario.
Instead, Dominion argues, the hosts continued to feature guests such as attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, the leading public adherents to the election fraud claims in the aftermath of the election. Giuliani represented Trump, but the campaign later cut ties with Powell.
In his deposition,...
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