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Rupert Murdoch acknowledged some Fox News hosts endorsed stolen US election claims

Lawyers for news channel deny media mogul had an active role in publishing fraud claims at issue in defamation case
Protesters outside Fox News Channel. Dominion’s litigation has exposed messages and testimony from some of the channel’s top talent about their coverage of the 2020 presidential election

Several of Fox News’ star commentators, including Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, “endorsed” claims on their primetime shows that the 2020 US election had been stolen from Donald Trump, the channel’s owner Rupert Murdoch acknowledged, as the company prepares to face a landmark defamation lawsuit over its coverage of the vote.

In sworn testimony given earlier this year to lawyers for election-machine manufacturer Dominion, which is suing Fox News and its owner Fox Corp for $1.6bn, Murdoch denied that the conservative news channel as a whole pushed the narrative of the election being fraudulently awarded to Joe Biden.

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