Dominion Voting Systems is taking its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News to the very top of the news corporation with set plans to depose media billionaire Rupert Murdoch. The voting hardware and software company that was targeted in numerous election-denying conspiracies accused Fox of selling “a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes” in a lawsuit filed last year. Now it seems Dominion lawyers hope to discover exactly what the owner of Fox Corporation and News Corp knew about the false claims aired by his network’s top hosts.

Murdoch’s remote depositions are scheduled for December 13 and 14. His son Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corp., also sat for an in-person deposition this week. The highest-ranking figures at Fox News Media, CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace, were deposed last month. As for its on-air talent, Sean Hannity, who aired a November 2020 segment in which former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell accused Dominion of utilizing “an algorithm that shaved off votes from Trump and awarded them to Biden,” gave a seven-hour deposition in August. Others cited in the Dominion suit include Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, both of whom promoted claims portraying Dominion as a devious or shady actor that unfairly contributed to Donald Trump’s defeat against Joe Biden.

Fox has denied the accusations made by Dominion’s lawyers. “We are confident we will prevail, as freedom of the press is foundational to our...

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