Deposition testimony from Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch showcases that he and other company executives knew that the election fraud claims that aired on Fox News following the 2020 presidential election were false.
, arrives on the third day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 13, 2017, in Sun Valley, Idaho.Deposition testimony from Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch showcases that he and other company executives knew that the election fraud claims that aired onFox News
hosts continued to platform guests who perpetuated the lie that Trump had only lost to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud. Details of Murdoch’s deposition — part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems against Murdoch,. In his statements, Murdoch repeatedly alleged that what airs on the network is up to the hosts rather than the executives, likely in an attempt to shift blame away from the Fox Corporation and himself.
Murdoch admitted that “some of our commentators were endorsing” false election fraud claims that were being pushed by then-President Donald Trump and his allies. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he said.
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