In a court filing released this week, Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch spoke candidly about how the network handled election fraud claims in 2020. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from Salon, WSJ, and DailyMail:
. Fox News denies the allegations, claiming they fairly reported on existing theories and calling the lawsuit a violation of the First Amendment.
“It is not red or blue, it is green,” Murdoch is quoted stating when asked why Lindell appeared on’s program and made unsubstantiated claims of fraud. Murdoch states that it was “wrong” to have Lindell on the network, but adds that he “pays us a lot of money.” Murdoch called some of the election fraud allegations “bulls**t and damaging” and stated that “some of our commentators were endorsing it.
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