Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods

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Source: New York Times

By Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson
Feb. 27, 2023, 4:49 p.m. ET


Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, court documents released on Monday showed.

"They endorsed," Mr. Murdoch said under oath in response to direct questions about the hosts Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, a legal filing by Dominion Voting Systems said. "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight."

Mr. Murdoch's remarks, which he made last month as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion, added to the evidence that Dominion has accumulated in an attempt to prove its central allegation: The people running the country's most popular news network knew Mr. Trump's claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election were false but broadcast them anyway.

The new documents and a similar batch released this month revealed that top executives and on-air hosts reacted with incredulity bordering on contempt to the various fictitious allegations about Dominion, including that a secret algorithm in its machines allowed votes to be switched from one candidate to another and that the company was founded in Venezuela to help that country's longtime leader, Hugo Chvez, fix elections.

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1. Even Paul Ryan told them to shut it.

. . . Dominion’s latest filing also described how Paul D. Ryan, a former Republican speaker of the House and current member of the Fox Corporation board of directors, said in his deposition that he had told Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Murdoch’s son Lachlan, the chief executive officer, “Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories.” Mr. Ryan suggested that the network pivot and “move on from Donald Trump and stop spouting election lies.”

[moonshinegnomie]

2. i hope the court issues a summary judgement

the evidence is clear. fox news lied and knew it. they basically destroyed dominions business. they should be on the hook for the entire value of dominion plus future profits.

[relayerbob]

5. And triple damages due to their doing it knowingly and willingly

[bluestarone]

9. YEP. PLUS

A cease and desist! STOP any future BULLSHIT

[relayerbob]

12. A nice big fine would be good, too

[PA_jen]

3. That Deposition presented to the FCC as proof Fox shouldn't be referred to as a News Channel.

[relayerbob]

4. "Stronger in denouncing it"?

Really???? IT ONLY PERSISTED BECAUSE OF THEIR REPEATING IT!!!!

Bastards. I hope that Dominion gets them for all damages and they get nailed for punitive on top of it.

[ificandream]

6. Link to filings

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/dominion-fox-news/54e33f20f7fb6e8d/full.pdf

[MissMillie]

19. This filing, dated today, was obviously expected.

It's a response to Fox, and it came VERY quickly. And it's VERY thorough.

The lawyers had a very good idea what Fox was going to say in its motion, and they were ready for it.

[ZonkerHarris]

7. thank you for the shared article

[Mopar151]

8. Time to charge Rupert with sedition!

Get his ass deported!

[electric_blue68]

10. You LIE, Murdock! But then again we already knew that, amirite?! Scum.

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Feck you, etc

[bucolic_frolic]

11. "in hindsight" - now that he's caught in a bind

If he weren't caught, there would be no hindsight.

[ffr]

13. Liar Liar News!

It must be awful being a contra-republic voter.

[thucythucy]

14. I would love to see the Murdoch dynasty get "Alex Jonese'd"--

found liable for the entire billion plus, plus enough of a punitive judgment on top of that to force Fox "News" and its entire media empire to go belly up.

It's not likely, I know, but I'm entitled to my dreams.

[moonshinegnomie]

16. at the very least they should have to pay dominion the entire value of the company

since their lies basically destroyed it. the entire value plus future earnings same for smartmatic
1.6B to then and 2.7B to smartmatic. just for actual damages. add5x that for punitive damfges. hit them and their on air liars for every dime they can. I figure 20B is a good number to start

[cstanleytech]

15. "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight." Bullshit!!!

[onecaliberal]

17. They are promoting that lie and going even further on Fox right this minute.

[Escurumbele]

18. Murdoch is throwing his loud voices under the bus...He knew they were lying and may have even

told them to do so, but there is no loyalty amongst crooks.

Can't wait for Hannity and the rest to come out and said "Murdoch made me do it!".

[70sEraVet]

27. That's the way I read it -- "I dont have any control over what my employees choose to say!"

How does it feel, Sean, Tucker, and the rest of the evil ninkumpoops, to be thrown under the bus!
(I've never typed the word 'ninkumpoops' before. Probably not spelled right)

[Botany]

20. Thanx for making the case Rupert that Fox is based on lying to the public

I will always remember on 1/4/21 in the AM Ainsley Earhardt said, "Lots of people still
have questions about the election." I saw this as I was channel surfing from MSNBC
(ch 53) up to the weather channel (ch 62) and Fox is @ 55 on my cable. I don't think
"the morning blond" thought that up herself but had it written for her.

I hope this destroys Fox but I doubt it will. I wonder if Fox will cover this story tonight.

Fox is cancer on America. Just yesterday Rupert Murdoch's WSJ was pushing false information
about C-19 coming from a lab in China.

[70sEraVet]

28. Thats a pretty bizarre chart! How did '8.3' shoot up over '8.5' and even '9.2'!!

[BigmanPigman]

21. If Fux was around in 1974

there would never have been a Watergate and a resignation.

[appalachiablue]

24. +1

[Botany]

31. That was Roger Ailes thinking all along in helping to start Fox

Because he thought that had there been "an alternative media" giving out "their facts"
Nixon would never have been forced out of office. You first saw the rise of Fox type of
"reporting" with how Ollie North went from a criminal grifting mother fucker to some kind
of right wing hero.

[BigmanPigman]

32. I can't even think about

that bastard without 5 or 6 profanities coming into my mouth first. Just thinking about him has me in a rage.

[Botany]

35. Ailes was a smart man no doubt about it but he blamed Dan Rather and the Washington Post for ....

.... Nixon's downfall and not the actions of Nixon himself and the gang of shits he
surrounded himself with. Remember it was Fox News that called Florida 2000 for w
and that helped to plunge America and the world into "the shits."

[calimary]

22. "... in hindsight"???

Just one more disgusting thing that schmuck has pulled out of his ass.

[patphil]

23. "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight"

Translation: My head was too far up my ass. I couldn't see the legal jeopardy my network's lies put me in.
As he pulled his head out of his ass to respond to the lawsuit, he found his hindsight!
A potential loss of 1.6 billion dollars is an expensive way to restore lost vision.
And it does leave one smelling like shit.

[aggiesal]

25. He literally threw his most popular hosts, under the bus ...

Are the hosts going to fight back?
Maybe contradict his testimony, thus proving perjury?
I'll get my popcorn ready for the in-fighting that will follow.

[70sEraVet]

29. THAT will be a show worth watching!!

[Bayard]

26. Soooo......

What does this mean for the channel long term? Will they change their format? Change talking heads? Get righteous?

[Evolve Dammit]

30. "..in hindsight." Fuck You. You knew and peddled the lie leading to 1/6. Burn with your $. nt

[cstanleytech]

40. Yup, he knew exactly what he was doing was wrong but he chose to do it anyway and

we all know that he and his network would do it again.

[Tarzanrock]

33. Time for broadcast license revocation

The knowing, deceitful and purposeful repeated publication of election lies and falsehoods by Fox News which led to civil unrest and a violent insurrection should be grounds for permanent broadcast license revocation by the FCC.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

41. Not this again. NT

[Tarzanrock]

34. Time for a permanent broadcast ban

This isn't cheating in the World Series which got the Black Sox players banned -- all Fox News personalities who participated in this fraud need to receive a permanent broadcast ban by the FCC.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. Not this again, Part II. NT

[AZLD4Candidate]

36. Captain Hindsight with the win again.

Murdoch, Musk, Barnette. . .anyone that enabled or enable Trump that is not American should be deported immediately.

[SouthernDem4ever]

37. It's sickening that fux nooze is the country's most popular news network

especially when they don't do news most of the time.

[republianmushroom]

38. only several

how many is several ? Could be all but one. Yep, got it.