The chairman of Fox Corp. Rupert Murdoch admitted that some top hosts at Fox News endorsed former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a fraudulent election in 2020, according to court documents released in Monday in Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion lawsuit against the company.
During his deposition in the case, Murdoch was pressed by attorneys for Dominion on whether hosts at the network endorsed Trump’s claim of stolen election.
“You are now aware that Fox endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election?” an attorney asked Murdoch.
“Not Fox, No. Not Fox. But maybe Lou Dobbs, maybe Maria, as commentators,” Murdoch replied. “Some of our commentators were endorsing it.”
Asked again if the network’s hosts endorsed Trump’s claims of a stolen election, Murdoch replied: “Yes. They endorsed.”
Murdoch also conceded that Fox News was “trying to straddle the line between spewing conspiracy theories on one hand, yet calling out the fact that they are actually false on the other.”
The filing on Monday is the latest in Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox for knowingly defaming the company in the aftermath of the 2020 election by broadcasting lies about the company’s machines rigging the election in favor of Joe Biden.
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