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NYT: Murdoch Acknowledged Under Oath that his Fox News Hosts Were Promoting the Big Lie [1]

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Date: 2023-02-27  

Womp womp

From The New York Times:

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.

www.nytimes.com/…

Kaboom. This admission is going to be a costly one for The Dirty Digger™️. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

So, as we have all suspected, if not known for years, the rot goes all the way to the top at Faux News. The next question is whether this could make Rupert criminally liable. No single person has been more damaging to human civilization in the modern era than Murdoch. At the very least, he deserves to lose billions, and it looks like he will.

Update 6:56pm ET: From democratic initiatives in the comments:

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