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Fox News is being sued for defamation over its 2020 election coverage. The case could shake up media law and the Murdoch empire

The stage is set for a high-stakes legal drama pitting Fox News against an election tech company over false claims about a plot to rig the 2020 US election. The case could have ripple effects on US defamation law and the Murdoch media empire.

ABC News

Noah Feldman: Fox News can be held accountable while protecting free speech

At the center of Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News and Fox Corporation is a deceptively subtle First Amendment question: How may a news outlet speak about false claims made by a public figure?

Tribune News Service

Dominion lawsuit is just the start as Fox faces losing friends – and viewers

Beyond the defamation case, Fox News must reckon with an alienated audience and its waning hold over the GOP

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2020 US election: Why is Fox News being sued by Dominion Voting Systems?

Documents in Dominions case against Fox News show evidence that Rupert Murdoch's media company knew it was peddling lies.

The New Daily

‘I was trying to help’: How Rupert Murdoch’s relationship with Jared Kushner boosted Trump’s campaign

The right-wing media mogul’s flagship newspaper once called him a ‘catastrophe’. With help from his son-in-law, Trump found his pulpit at Fox News, now facing a lawsuit over his election lies, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Filing: Murdoch was trying to help Trump

Fox refuted the allegation even though Murdoch admitted in deposition he was "trying to help Mr. Kushner"

Salon

First Thing: China and US headed towards conflict, China’s foreign minister says

Qin Gang rebuked Washington over its Taiwan policy and the balloon incident, while praising Beijing’s relationship with Russia. Plus, the secret history of Merle Oberon

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Fox News hit with election complaint after Biden ad given to Trump son-in-law

Media Matters for America raised issue of Murdoch handing Jared Kushner confidential information about a Biden ad with the FEC

The Guardian - US

Rupert Murdoch distances himself from Fox News election denial as legal fight looms

Fox News' latest legal fight may have already been undermined by the company's own star employees.

Fortune

Democratic leaders in Congress tell Rupert Murdoch to halt ‘grave propaganda’ around 2020 election

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries urge top Fox News personalities to admit on-air ‘that they were wrong’

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch says Fox TV hosts ‘endorsed’ false election claims

Murdoch’s testimony has been unsealed as part of a defamation lawsuit brought by a US-based voting machine company.

Al Jazeera

Murdoch claims Sean Hannity was ‘privately disgusted’ with Trump, according to court filings

Right-wing media mogul said election disinformation should be a ‘wake-up call’ for network’s most-watched personality, who was ‘scared to lose viewers’ by publicly rejecting false claims

The Independent UK

Experts: Murdoch admission "devastating"

Unsealed deposition shows Fox boss admitted hosts "endorsed" false claims and welcomed conspiracists for profit

Salon

Crikey examines Rupert Murdoch’s admission that Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ US election lie

Lawyers consider implications of patriarch’s testimony as they prepare to fight defamation suit brought by Lachlan Murdoch

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Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars 'endorsed' lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them

Under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation case, Murdoch says he wishes Fox News had been "stronger in denouncing" false claims of election fraud. Fox says the lawsuit threatens journalists' free speech.

The Guardian - US

Rupert Murdoch testified that Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ stolen election narrative

Network owner also admitted in $1.6bn defamation lawsuit deposition that Trump’s claims were ‘damaging to everybody’

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch admits Fox News stars ‘endorsed’ bogus election fraud claims

Right-wing media empire’s chairman gives sworn deposition in Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit

The Independent UK

Off camera, Fox hosts doubted 2020 election fraud claims

To millions of viewers, Fox News hosts gave allies of former President Donald Trump a platform to champion false claims that he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud

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The Independent UK

Fox: Dominion defamation suit is assault on First Amendment

Attorneys for Fox News say a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election is an assault on the First Amendment

Reason

Smartmatic's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Can Go Forward

From today's decision by the New York intermediate appellate court in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp.: The causes of action for defamation were based on significant allegations that defendant Giuliani (and defendant Powell, against whom the action has been dismissed) made defamatory statements about plaintiffs' involvement in the 2020…

Los Angeles Times

Murdochs will not face separate trial in Dominion's defamation suit against Fox News

NEW YORK — A Delaware Supreme Court judge has agreed to consolidate Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News, meaning there won't be a second trial to sue the network's parent company Fox Corporation.

The Conversation

The first biography of Lachlan Murdoch provides some insights, but leaves important questions unanswered

The title of Paddy Manning’s The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch tells us what is good and not so good about this biography.

ABC News

Why Lachlan Murdoch may not have the News Corp succession sewn up

In The Successor, Paddy Manning tells the intriguing story of a man who at once is one of the world's most prominent media barons, but who also actively shuns the spotlight.

The Guardian - UK

Murdoch’s succession: who wins from move to reunite Fox and News Corp?

Deal would seal legacy with favoured heirs, but markets question whether companies should merge in the first place

Los Angeles Times

Murdoch moves to reunite companies that own Fox News and the Wall Street Journal

Three years after selling much of 21st Century Fox to Walt Disney, Rupert Murdoch is exploring reuniting his U.S news companies, bringing titles like the Wall Street Journal and Fox News under one umbrella.

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