New court documents show that Rupert Murdoch and his top lieutenants at Fox News were aware that former president Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but agreed to give them continued coverage in an effort to keep its unhappy viewers from fleeing.
New court documents show that Rupert Murdoch and his top lieutenants at Fox News were aware that former president Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but agreed to give them continued coverage in an effort to keep its unhappy viewers from fleeing.
The filing also reveals that Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan warned the Murdochs “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories,” according to testimony from the former Republican Speaker of the House.Dominion’s motion for a summary judgment reveals what some Fox News execs and anchors were really thinking while giving a voice to Trump’s voter fraud claims.
The court document also shows how network executives debated over debunking Trump’s false claims without agitating its viewers, some of whom were flocking toOn January 5, Murdoch and Scott discussed whether hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham should say some version of “The election is over and Joe Biden won.” Murdoch believed those words “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election was stolen.
No statement was made that night and the next day, Jan. 6, Trump-supporting rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count.
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