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Fox News is in a defamation case
Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch’s team mocked US President Donald Trump’s election fraud claims on air in 2020 while amplifying them to appease viewers, court documents revealed. One of the emails read, “Many…give no thought to electoral fraud…that is, these machines, these electronic voting companies, including Dominion, prominently Dominion,” while another read, “At least in…
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New emails show that the CEO of Fox News said that fact-checking of Donald Trump’s election lies was bad for business
Fox News has asked to be dropped from a lawsuit filed by US-based hedge fund Dominion Fox Corporation that alleged Fox News and two of its employees falsified results of the 2020 mid-term elections. Dominion had alleged Fox News “fabricated” results to favour President Donald Trump’s re-election. The company had asked the judge to order…
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Judge of Fox News told him to not look like an idiot over Murdoch testifying
Fox News’ Founder Rupert Murdoch was too ill-equipped to testify at a $1.6 billion defamation case against the network, a judge said. However, the judge added that Murdoch had already submitted to seven hours of questioning in the deposition and his trial testimony would not be needed since he had already testified. US President Donald…
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Legal experts said that Dominion had unearthed’smoking gun’ evidence in case against Fox News
During an interview with the owner of Fox News, Lachlan Murdoch, he was asked if he could have told Fox News’ CEO and its stars to stop giving airtime to Rudy Giuliani, a key Trump campaign lawyer peddling election lies, an ex-Fox producer has claimed. “Hannity is getting awfully close to the line with his…
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The Fox News foundation has election-fraud claims
A US judge has been named to a new case accusing Fox News of misleading people in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory. Delaware Superior Court Judge Davida Brooks referred to herself in a court filing as “Fox’s culture judge”. Brooks said she had heard Fox News had made “false and defamatory statements” against…
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Murdoch acknowledges that Fox News hosts have supported election fraud
Dominion Voting Systems, the largest US-based election technology company, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News alleging that the network “recklessly disregarded truth” and pushed various pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories during the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit alleged that the lies “were good for Fox’s business”. The network claimed the company’s CEO has threatened to…
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Legal experts say that the case against Fox News has’smoking gun’ evidence
Fox News’ CEO Rupert Murdoch, in a deposition, has denied that the network endorsed ex-US President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2016 US Election was rigged. Murdoch said that he had told his family that Fox News shouldn’t be spreading conspiracy theories. In a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed against Fox News, Dominion Voting System had…
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Fox News says a defamation loss would hurt the media
Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for defamation, argued that the case is so strong that a trial isn’t needed. Fox executives knew they were endorsing lies from then-President Donald Trump about election fraud, Dominion’s legal filing revealed. When hosts scrambled to promote Trump’s claims of fraud, Fox Executives seized on…
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A renowned Yale professor says Fox executives should be fired due to proven behavior exposed in the lawsuit
Fox News has filed a lawsuit against former anchorwoman Gretchen Grossberg, seeking a restraining order against her to prevent her from divulging privileged information that it said would cause the network to “suffer immediate irreparable harm”. In its lawsuit against Grossberg, Fox’s legal team said it informed her attorney that information included in her draft…
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MurdochAcknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson mocked Trump’s claims that the 2016 US presidential election was rigged in a phone call to then-President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Michael Glassner, according to a lawsuit filed against the network. The lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting System accused Fox News of defaming them by airing false claims that they…
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The CEO of Fox News warned against ‘crazies’
Messages between Fox News’ Co-chair Suzanne Scott and the network’s Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch in December 2020 have surfaced online. Scott sent Murdoch a message saying Newsmax needed to be watched, while Murdoch wrote, “Why do… Murdochs want to take away…Fox News monopoly on pro-Trump ads?” Murdoch told Scott he didn’t believe her coverage…
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There are emails and text messages that contain information about Fox News
Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a group chat in November 2020 had said that President Donald Trump’s decision to ignore Joe Biden’s inauguration was “so destructive”. Carlson, who was referring to former US President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, also said that Trump’s behavior after the election was disgusting. “That’s the last four years…that’s…
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McConnell slammed Fox and Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that security footage from January 6 attack on US Capitol shows Jacob Chansley, known as the “qanon Shaman”, walking through the Capitol without pushback from police. However, the new video of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was recorded after he was attacked on the frontlines of the Capitol,…
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Q: What’s it like to be surprised by Fox News revelations?
Rupert Murdoch’s son Lachlan Murdoch in a deposition told a judge that Fox News executives who knowingly allowed “lies to be broadcast” should face consequences. The deposition was part of a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News over the 2020 election. The suit alleged that Fox News employees violated the US constitutional right to vote…
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Kevin McCarthy defended the release of footage to Tucker Carlson
Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson was given access to Capitol security footage from January 6 by US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a report said. This comes after Carlson falsely claimed the footage provided “conclusive evidence proving Democrats lied about the events of January 6”. The footage was released by the committee that investigated the January…
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Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims
Senior executives of Fox News wanted to stop stars from having Donald Trump’s campaign attorneys repeat their lies on their shows, a court transcript showed. The deposition of Fox News’ CEO Scott Murdoch, who was accused of defamation by Smartmatic, showed how Fox News executives and hosts were after losing viewers to Newsmax, a smaller…
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Biden’s standing improves, while Trump’s falls with Republicans
Ex-US President Donald Trump on Sunday shared a clip of former Fox News host Megyn Kelly predicting GOP voters would remain in Trump’s camp if Florida governor Ron DeSantis decides to challenge Trump in a Republican presidential primary. “If in fact you go into a presidential primary with Trump and think you’re going to kick…
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The Fox News boss faces a potential crisis of confidence, because of the election fraud revelations
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott was asked whether he could have told the channel to stop giving airtime to Rudy Giuliani, a key Trump campaign attorney, according to a court filing in a defamation case against the company. Each Murdoch speaks roughly daily to Scott, she testified. Murdoch was asked whether he could’ve told Fox…
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Fox News is involved in a $1.6 billion lawsuit
A former employee of Fox News has revealed that executives at the network “secretly huddle” most days to determine how best to portray former US President Donald Trump as badly as possible. The employee said during a deposition, Fox News executives also tried to stop Lou Dobbs from having Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on…
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Fox News could be in trouble because of the election fraud revelations
Fox News chief executive officer Suzanne Scott should be removed from her role by the board if it’s going to act soon, former US House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday. He added that board members had failed to act to prevent misconduct by Fox executives. This comes after reports claimed Murdoch asked Scott to…
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Murdoch said it was not an accident that the GOP was celebrated as a future of the party
Fox News’ owner Rupert Murdoch said that he’d prefer former President Donald Trump to be the leader of the Republican party instead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “We don’t want to see our party being like the Democratic Party,” Murdoch added. Trump, who is expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination, has been under…
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The election fraud claims that were peddled by Fox News stars were blasted off the air
Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman of Fox Corporation, suggested Fox News CEO Roger Scott to stop airing the Trump Myth that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen, according to court documents. This comes as Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and CNN for falsely accusing the firm of switching…
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Murdoch acknowledged that the hosts of Fox News endorsed false election claims
A senior Fox News executive, Raj Shah, testified in a US court that he had assured Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch that the channel shouldn’t be spreading conspiracy theories. Shah said he told the Murdochs “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories”. Shah’s testimony was given during a hearing over allegations…
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The Fox News CEO warned against crazies after the election
The top executives at Fox News criticised claims of election fraud during the 2020 presidential race despite allowing lies about it to be promoted on air, a court filing revealed. In one of the messages, one of the executives wrote, “Following Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, don’t believe [this].” Another said, “I don’t care how…
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Fox News CEO warned against the rise of crazies
Fox News executives privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in 2020 election, despite the fact that the channel allowed lies about presidential contest to be promoted, a US judge said. Judge Eric M Nelson added that top executives were worried about alienating former US President Donald Trump when he appeared on Newsmax. Dominion Voting Systems…