Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6 billion Dominion voting

Record ID: 1702868

  • Title: Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6 billion Dominion voting
  • Date: 12th December 2022
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - FEBRUARY 4, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NEWS CORP HEADQUARTERS EXTERIOR IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT - JULY 20, 2011) (REUTERS) RUPERT MURDOCH AND HIS FORMER WIFE WENDY DENG GETTING OUT OF VEHICLE AND ENTERING THEIR HOME ON 5TH AVENUE IN MANHATTAN
  • Embargoed: 26th December 2022 20:05
  • Keywords: 2020 presidential election Delaware Superior Court Dominion Voting Systems Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch Fox News Network President Donald Trump defamation lawsuit
  • Location: VARIOUS
  • City: VARIOUS
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA004620612122022RP1
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  • Story Text:Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath Tuesday (December 13) in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 presidential election. Murdoch will be questioned via teleconference on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14 by lawyers for election technology company Dominion Voting Systems, according to a filing in Delaware Superior Court.
    Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages from Fox News Network LLC for spreading false claims that its machines were used to flip the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.
    Murdoch is the most high-profile figure to face questioning in the case, which is part of a multi-front legal campaign by Dominion against Fox and other conservative outlets and commentators who accused the company of conspiring to oust former President Donald Trump.
    Over the past several months, Dominion lawyers have questioned more than a dozen Fox TV personalities, executives, and producers as they probe whether the outlet knew the election-rigging claims were false.
    On Dec. 5, Murdoch’s eldest son and executive chair and CEO of Fox Corp, Lachlan Murdoch, sat for a deposition in Los Angeles. Murdoch’s other son, James Murdoch, was questioned in October.
    Fox hosts Tucker Carlson, Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs, and Bret Baeier have also been questioned in recent months, court records show.
    Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace have also sat for depositions, court records show.
    Sean Hannity, Fox’s longest-serving primetime cable host, was questioned for more than seven hours in August on a wide range of topics, including a November 2020 segment of his show where he broadcast unfounded claims that voting machines used an “algorithm” to “trash” votes for Trump and “add massive quantities of votes for Mr. Biden.”
    The claim was made by Sidney Powell, a Trump attorney who mounted a host of unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results. Powell is currently fighting a Dominion subpoena.
    A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin on April 17.
    (Production: Aleksandra Michalska)
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