Two top Democrats in Congress are calling on Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and the leadership of Fox News “to stop spreading false election narratives and admit on the air that they were wrong to engage in such negligent behavior.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both Democrats from New York, sent a letter this week to Murdoch and Fox News leadership. The letter comes days after further revelations in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp and its TV networks.
“As noted in your deposition released yesterday Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and other Fox News personalities knowingly, repeatedly, and dangerously endorsed and promoted the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which was released Wednesday.
Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that the election was stolen from him. His attempts to pressure a top official in Georgia to “find” votes for him are the subject of a criminal probe in that state, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Earlier this week, Dominion filed court papers that revealed parts of the testimony from Murdoch and other top Fox Corp leadership. In his deposition, Murdoch acknowledged that some of Fox’s top TV hosts endorsed false election fraud claims.
When Murdoch was asked if he was “now aware that Fox endorsed at times this false notion of a stolen election,” Murdoch responded, “Not Fox, no. Not Fox. But maybe Lou Dobbs, maybe Maria [Bartiromo] as commentators,” according to court papers.
“Some of our commentators were endorsing it,” Murdoch said in his responses regarding election fraud during the deposition. “They endorsed.” Murdoch and other top Fox executives also remained close to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott during the election coverage, according to the court papers.
A representative for Fox didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
On Monday, when the court papers…
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