In the explosive Dominion Voting $1.6 billion lawsuit against FOX News, it was revealed that the head of the channel — Rupert Murdoch — knew his ‘top hosts’ were ‘pushing election lies to their audience.’
“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” the media mogul added.
Another revelation during the deposition: Murdoch wrote in an email to the New York Post, describing election lies that Trump was pushing as “bulls**t and damaging.”
In a telling change, Murdoch said it was “wrong” for Tucker Carlson to host conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell after the election, admitting “It is not red or blue, it is green,” he said. That’s a shocking admission from Murdoch, but confirms what most (thinking) people already knew — it’s not a credible news source.
Also damning, is an email from Murdoch to Paul Ryan saying “Sean Hannity had “been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers.”
So the hosts were lying to their rabid audience all along.
In another shocking admission, Murdoch says he gave Jared Kushner “confidential information” in 2020 about then-candidate Joe Biden’s ads “along with debate strategy” including showing him the ads before they aired.
That alone should have repercussions.
So in this telling deposition, Murdoch proves that in fact, Fox News is not a news network. the deposition revealed that Fox News peddled election lies to their audience to keep their numbers up, and slanted all their coverage to benefit Trump, which would be a major scandal at any other outlet.
Naturally, Trump struck back, angrily accusing Murdoch of ‘throwing his Fox anchors under the table’ by saying they ‘endorsed’ stolen election lies.’
Stay tuned.