Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch praised Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on Thursday, even as the network faces a legal reckoning over lies it repeatedly broadcast following the 2020 presidential election.
Communications between Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Fox Corp. head Lachlan Murdoch following the 2020 presidential election are being scrutinized in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Murdoch praised Scott's performance in an appearance on Thursday.Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images; Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Getty Images
He cited the company's expansion into weather and on-demand news, and asserted Fox News attracted a diverse audience because its programming appealed to their values. "This is hard business to run," Murdoch added."And I think, you know, Suzanne Scott has done a tremendous job."Yet Scott's leadership of Fox News is at the heart of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by a voting tech company named Dominion Voting Systems.
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