Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch worried Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity “went too far” in embracing false election fraud claims, court documents show.
Rupert Murdoch was concerned that some of his top talent might have pushed Donald Trump's stolen election myth too far.
A judge unsealed the documents, along with portions of some of employee depositions, as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Fox News is facing from Dominion Voting Systems. “Thanks to today’s filings, Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," the statement said. "We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.
“As the dominant media company among those viewers dissatisfied with the election results, Fox gave these fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved.
In a group text chain from mid-November, Hannity, Ingraham and Tucker Carlson complained about their news colleagues and the network’s decision to call Arizona in favor of Biden. Fox News was the first network to do so, and the call was accurate.“My anger at the news channel is pronounced,” Ingraham said later in the exchange.
In an email to former Fox executive Preston Padden 20 days after the election, Murdoch said he believed the network was"navigating" everything"pretty well."
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