Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire conservative media mogul who owns Fox News Channel, acknowledged that top hosts at his network endorsed former President Trump’s false claims of a fraudulent election in 2020, court documents filed on Monday show.
Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Murdoch and Fox Corp. for defamation seeking $1.6 billion in damages, pressed Murdoch directly as they deposed him about whether some of the network’s widely watched opinion hosts endorsed Trump’s unproven claims.
“In fact, you are now aware that Fox endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election?” one of Dominion’s lawyers asked Murdoch during his deposition, the court filing shows.
“Not Fox, No. Not Fox. But maybe Lou Dobbs, maybe Maria, as commentators,” Murdoch replied.
“Some of our commentators were endorsing it,” the media tycoon replied when pressed again if the hosts endorsed Trump’s claims of a fraudulent election. “Yes. They endorsed.”
The filing made Monday by Dominion is the latest chapter in a blockbuster lawsuit in which the voting systems company argues top brass at Fox, including its top hosts and executives, defamed it by airing false claims peddled by Trump and his associates in the weeks following the 2020 election.
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