Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed false allegations by former President Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
A headline about President Donald Trump is displayed outside Fox News studios in New York on Nov. 28, 2018. Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a deposition that some Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by the former president and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he did not step in to stop them from promoting the claims.
The Murdoch deposition is the latest filing in the defamation case to reveal concerns at the top-rated network over how it was handling Trump’s claims as its ratings plummeted after the network called Arizona for Joe Biden, angering Trump and his supporters.An earlier filing showed a gulf between the stolen election narrative the network was airing in primetime and doubts about the claims raised by its stars behind the scenes. In one text, from Nov.
Murdoch was asked whether he could have requested that Powell and Giuliani not be put on the air:"I could have. But I didn’t,” he replied.
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