Rupert Murdoch said some Fox News hosts and commentators endorsed the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen, according to testimony in an ongoing defamation lawsuit.
Voting-machine company Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and Fox Corp. FOX for defamation, over false on-air claims that its technology enabled widespread fraud in the election. The new details emerged in briefs in which the companies laid out evidence they plan to present to a Delaware state court.
Mr. Murdoch, the chair of Fox News parent Fox Corp., said Fox News and Fox Business commentators including on-air hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, endorsed the idea of a stolen election to varying degrees, according to a deposition cited in Dominion’s brief, which was unsealed Monday.