Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch at the Herman Kahn Award Gala, Oct. 30, 2019, in New York. Key FactsHundreds of pages of court documents have been unsealed as part of Dominion’s defamation suit, which accuses Fox News of pushing fraud claims involving its voting machines after the 2020 election despite knowing those claims were false. The case is one of two defamation suits Fox faces over its fraud claims following the 2020 election, as rival company Smartmatic is also suing the network and several of its anchors. It has drawn Trump’s ire, as the ex-president has repeatedly attacked Murdoch on Truth Social for not believing there was widespread election fraud while praising the anchors who pushed the fraud claims. Further Reading‘Mind Blowingly Nuts’: Fox News Hosts And Execs Repeatedly Denounced 2020 Election Fraud Off-Air—Here Are Their Most Scathing Comments (Forbes)New Fox News Documents Show Tucker Carlson, Murdoch And More Disputing 2020 Election Fraud—Here Are Their Most Explosive Comments (Forbes)Fox Unlikely To Settle With Dominion Over Election Lies As High-Stakes Trial Nears, Experts Say (Forbes)Murdoch Admits Fox News Hosts Pushed False Election Fraud Claims (Forbes)

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