Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch survived the phone-hacking scandal. Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit will test whether he can do it again.
When billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch was forced to answer questions from UK lawmakers in July 2011 about claims that his newspapers had illegally hacked into the voicemail boxes of hundreds of celebrities, royals, and ordinary people to dig up dirt,"Invading people's privacy by listening to their voicemail is wrong," he said, pledging to help with the police investigation and adding that he was"shocked, appalled and ashamed.
Now, two voting-technology companies, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, want to make another Murdoch media property pay even more for Fox News's role in spreading election denial. The two companies are seeking a total of more than $4 billion in lawsuits in Delaware and New York, and the situation has gotten worse and worse for Fox since February.
Starting around 2003, the News of the World began to rely heavily on an investigator named Glenn Mulcaire to dig through trash bins and do whatever else it took to get information that its reporters couldn't, the Independent. One method of generating stories, which he shared with reporters so they could do it themselves, was hacking into voicemail boxes of the famous — celebrities, royals like Prince William, and their associates.
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