A lawsuit from voting machine maker Dominion alleges Fox News promoted Donald Trump's stolen election claim - despite owner Rupert Murdoch and other Fox identities not believing it was true. This is what's going on.
Rupert Murdoch has acknowledged under oath that some Fox News hosts 'endorsed' Donald Trump's false claim that the election was stolen.It alleges Fox News hosts and owner Rupert Murdoch did not believe Trump's stolen election claims.
The lawsuit, being brought by Dominion Voting Systems, has alleged that many behind the scenes at the network did not believe the. Supporters of Mr Trump had said Dominion voting machines were used to rig the result. On 30 November 2020, for example, Ms Powell appeared on Sean Hannity’s program on the network, where she falsely stated that Dominion machines "ran an algorithm that shaved off votes from Trump and awarded them to Biden. And they used the machines to trash large batches of votes that should have been awarded to President Trump".
Asked by a Dominion lawyer if some of Fox’s commentators had endorsed the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, Mr Murdoch responded, “Yes. They endorsed,” according to the filing. The underlying exhibits for many statements remain under seal. Fox has said Dominion took them out of context.In its own filing made public Monday, Fox argued its coverage of Mr Trump's statements and his lawyers were inherently newsworthy and that Dominion’s "extreme" interpretation of defamation law would "stop the media in its tracks".
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