Rupert Murdoch Admits Some Fox Hosts “Endorsed” Donald Trump’s “Damaging” Election Claims, Dominion Says In New Filing; Network Says Lawsuit Takes “Extreme” Of Defamation Law
. Dominion contends that, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Fox hosts amplified claims that it was involved in rigging the results, even though many hosts and executives didn’t believe such a scenario.
In his deposition, according to the Dominion filing, Murdoch said that he could have told Suzanne Scott or the Fox News hosts to stop putting Giuliani on the air. “I could have. But I didn’t.” A Dominion filing earlier this month was chalk full of text messages and emails from Fox News personalities and executives, showing that they saw the election fraud claims as dubious but worried that calling them out would jeopardize their audience to conservative outlets like Newsmax.
Fox contends that Dominion is taking an “extreme, unsupported view” of defamation law in arguing that Fox should be liable. They argued that under that interpretation, all media could be liable for reporting newsworthy allegations that reporters and editors thought were bogus. “The Washington Post could be on the hook for reporting President Trump’s allegation that President Obama was born in Kenya, since several of its editors understood that the claim was bogus,” they wrote.
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