Rupert Murdoch

The Theranos scam co-conspirators have to foot a huge bill for their crimes.

In a ruling yesterday (May 16), US district judge Edward Davila ordered Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to those she duped while building her hoax blood-testing business.

Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from Fox News was so unexpected, the channel was running commercials promoting his show Monday morning. There are some facts you should have in mind when attempting to make sense of Carlson’s departure.

Tucker Carlson’s sudden exit from Fox News rattled the media and political spheres on Monday.  

The departure raises questions about the future of Fox, the GOP and conservatism, and for the longtime host himself.  

Here are some takeaways following the Monday morning shocker:  

It deprives Fox of its biggest star 

Carlson has been the network’s A-lister on the commentary side no matter how you slice it.  

When Fox settled the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, the conventional wisdom was that it would alter little about the way Fox News operates. “Don’t Expect Fox News to Change After Massive Dominion Payout,” said a Vanity Fair headline. “Will Fox Settlement Alter Conservative Media? Apparently Not,” said The Associated Press.

A Delaware judge on Tuesday lectured attorneys defending Fox News in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit after they revealed that Rupert Murdoch is not only the chairman at Fox Corp., but also a corporate officer at its subsidiary, Fox News.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis said Fox lawyers previously had "represented to him more than once" that Murdoch was not an officer for the subsidiary cable network. Such information "could have" led him to make different rulings earlier on in the case, he said.

After years of baseless Republican bellyaching that Big Tech content-moderation policies qualify as illegal in-kind campaign contributions to Democrats, a court filing last week appeared to flip the script in a very real way.

And then on Tuesday, the script may have flipped again.

Last week’s filing—submitted as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Fox News—accused network patriarch Rupert Murdoch of giving Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign a sneak peak at an unreleased Joe Biden ad.

By early January 2021, Fox News hosts and executives were ready to move on from then-President Donald Trump and his insistence that the election was stolen.

"it's been 8 weeks and none of them has produced anything tangible or verifiable. and now he wants thousands of his supporters to go to DC without shelter or food to demonstrate," host Lou Dobbs texted a producer on his show on Jan. 3. "I believe the election was stolen — but without evidence we can do nothing significant."

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch admitted in a deposition that some Fox News hosts "endorsed" false election conspiracy theories but he chose not to stop them, according to unsealed court documents in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.

"They endorsed," Murdoch said in the deposition in response to questions about hosts Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo.

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.

Donald Trump flew into a rage at Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday morning for admitting in a deposition that Fox anchors 'endorsed' election fraud 'lies'.

The former president accused the billionaire media magnate of 'throwing his anchors under the table' over his comments in sworn testimony as part of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit.

In his comments on Truth Social, Trump claimed Murdoch is 'killing his case' and 'infuriating his viewers' who will be 'again leaving in droves'.