The president of the American television channel made the statements in a lawsuit filed by voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting against the channel for defamation in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden and maintained that there was electoral fraud.
Dominion believes Fox News was wrong in reporting that the manufacturer’s voting machines had been used for this fraud, when the editors knew this was not true. Fox News invokes press freedom in the case, saying Trump’s claims were “undeniably newsworthy” and that viewers understood they were mere allegations.
According to The New York Times, Murdoch’s sworn statements show that “the nation’s most popular TV network knew Trump’s claims were false and decided to air them anyway.”
Dominion’s $1.6 billion case against Fox News begins April 17.