Rupert Murdoch is slated to be questioned Tuesday and Wednesday in the defamation lawsuit brought by a voting machine manufacturer over Fox News’ coverage of unfounded claims of vote-rigging during the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion Voting Systems slapped the network with a $1.6 billion suit in March 2021, claiming that the cable news giant “sold a false story of election fraud” to boost its slumping ratings. The suit names a bevy of Fox News hosts, including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs, along with frequent guests like attorney Sydney Powell, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and My Pillow CEO Mike Lyndell, and outlines their participation in baseless on-air assertions that Dominion was somehow complicit in election fraud.
The complaint argues that Fox intentionally provided a platform for on-air guests that hosts knew would make “false and defamatory statements of fact” and that Fox’s hosts “affirmed, endorsed, repeated and agreed with those guests’ statements,” according to court papers filed in Superior Court in Delaware.
Fox has argued that it had a right to report on former President Donald Trump’s allegations about vote manipulation and that Dominion’s lawsuit would stifle press freedom.
But the suit maintains that the network behaved differently than other news outlets, which reported objectively on the false allegations. It also points to the fact that once Fox News declared that Joe Biden had won Arizona, it lost viewership for...
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