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Rupert Murdoch: Fox News Peddled 2020 Lies For The Money
- By The Financial District
- Mar 1, 2023
- 2 min read
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a deposition that several Fox hosts endorsed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, The New York Times reported.
Photo Insert: Fox claims that the statements by Trump's lawyers were "newsworthy" and that's why the information was reported.
The chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
Reporting for Raw Story, Sarah K. Burris wrote that Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money. New court documents from the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News were released, revealing even more details about the head of the network allegedly prioritizing money over truth.
Fox is opposing the motion of Dominion for summary judgment, which would prevent an actual trial.
"Dominion sued Fox News Networks and parent company Fox Corp in March 2021 and November 2021 in Delaware Superior Court, alleging the cable TV network amplified false claims that Dominion voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost to Democratic rival Joe Biden," Burris stressed.
Dominion argues that the internal communications and depositions from Fox personnel "prove the network knowingly spread falsehoods about Trump's loss in the 2020 US presidential election in order to bolster its ratings."
Fox claims that the statements by Trump's lawyers were "newsworthy" and that's why the information was reported. Other networks reported the claims but with a disclaimer that the conspiracies were false or unsubstantiated.
In one excerpt from Rupert Murdoch's deposition, "Rupert confirmed that he could tell FNN to stop running Lindell's advertisements, 'But I'm not about to.' ... and when asked why Fox continues to give a platform to Lindell — who continues to this day to spout lies about Dominion — Murdoch agreed that 'It is not red or blue, it is green." ... Lindell brought—and brings— Fox a lot of green. He also predictably brought the same lies about Dominion to Fox's viewers that had been peddled on Fox's 'alternate reality machine' for months."
