Influential media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch has admitted that some commentators from American conservative broadcaster FOX News spread lies after the 2020 presidential election. Proof of this was published Monday.
American media circulated a document that reproduces the 91-year-old’s affidavit from early February. The lie that then-President Donald Trump was fraudulently robbed of his re-election was supported by some Fox News commentators, but not by the entire station, Murdoch said. “I would have liked to have seen that in retrospect.”
Legal dispute with voting computer manufacturer
The background is a libel lawsuit brought by voting computer manufacturer Dominion against broadcaster Fox News, which belongs to Murdoch’s media empire. In the lawsuit, Dominion is claiming about $ 1.6 billion (about 1.5 billion euros) in damages because Fox News spread reports about alleged manipulation of the voting computers. The TV station’s management invokes freedom of the press and insists that it legitimately treats and reproduces the version of Trump and his lawyers as news.
To this day, Republican Trump falsely claims that fraud robbed him of his election victory. In the trial before a federal court in Delaware, Dominion wants to prove that Fox News deliberately broadcast false news.
Source: Krone
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