Rupert Murdoch will be deposed in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox

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Source: CNBC

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is scheduled to appear for a deposition next week as part of Dominion Voting’s defamation lawsuit against the company and its cable TV networks. Murdoch will appear via video call on Dec. 13 and 14, according to a court filing. His deposition will follow that of his son, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch, on Monday this week.

In its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox, Dominion has argued that Fox News and Fox Business made false claims that its voting machines were rigged in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Representatives for Fox and Dominion did not comment beyond the court filing. Fox has vigorously denied the claims.

The Murdochs are the highest-ranking executives to be questioned. Earlier this year Fox’s TV personalities, including Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro, appeared for depositions. The depositions and documents that Dominion has been collecting through the discovery process remain private. Fox has requested that the court keep all collected materials private, claiming Dominion mischaracterized what they show as actual malice.

Dominion must prove to a jury that Fox and its TV hosts acted with actual malice ? meaning they knew they were reporting false information but continued to do so anyway, or purposely disregarded information that showed their reporting as inaccurate. Fox’s top brass are being deposed after a Delaware judge overseeing the case reportedly ruled in June that Dominion’s lawsuit could be expanded beyond the cable TV networks to include their parent company. Dominion has argued Fox and its top executives played a role in Fox’s TV personalities spreading misinformation about voter fraud.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/rupert-murdoch-deposed-dominion-lawsuit.html

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1. Wait! It's not a Friday. Why so many good news News Dumps?

Ah, who cares! I love it!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I know!

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3. Millions IMO would love to see Fox hammered! n/t

[SergeStorms]

4. MANY millions!

Getting these purveyors of lies and deceit is going to prove difficult though, even though half of Americans know they're guilty. Proving that Fox's on-air "celebrities" did this with malice, and knowledge that it was all lies, is going to be more difficult that most believe, in my opinion. I wouldn't put lying under oath out of their range either. They're snakes.

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5. Even if they were found guilty and had to pay the full fine, how would that put FOX out of business?

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7. The corporation has many parts and pieces

that they may have to sell off.

[ancianita]

8. Very cool graphic, thanks. So the fact remains

that it would stay intact minus bits & pieces.

The problem is the management that can still rev right back to similar "news" programming, anyway.

It's too bad that the court can't rule to eliminate and replace current Murdoch owners or management.

This is a suit that dramatizes two goliaths going at it, and we as audience love to imagine some win for their market audience, when there really isn't one. It's just that the chairs at the FOX table get rearranged -- maybe hosts changed, who knows -- but facts and truth won't be considered profitable enough to change programming or production.

[speak easy]

9. Um ... Graphic 1 - News of the World - Closed July, 2011

Graphic 2 - My Space - Divested June 2011

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Yes - since both of those graphics were done

(and the 2nd one was even from 2010) there have been some sell-offs and shifts. Was trying to hunt for a good, more "recent" graphic of brands, but threw those up just as a heads up as to the types of media that News Corp. has (i.e., not just Faux Snooze).

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6. Aww...

Poor Rupert. The wrinkly old fuck will have to fly back from London for this😂

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11. good

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12. Murdoch should be deported

Stripped of his bogus US citizenship and sent to The Hague for crimes against humanity. He is filthy through and through.

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13. Rupert Murdoch is currently being deposed in the $1.6 billion Dominion defamation case.

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