At the start of a pretrial hearing for the $1.6 billion defamation trial, the judge said he was still weighing whether to issue a summary judgment.
Category: Presidential Election of 2020
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The Week in Business: Fox News Anchors’ Private Messages
President Biden offers a proposed budget. Jobs numbers once again soared past analysts’ forecasts. And we’ll get a new inflation figure this week.
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Records Show Fox and G.O.P.’s Shared Quandary: Trump
Fox hosts and executives privately mocked the former president’s election fraud claims, even as the network amplified them in a frantic effort to appease viewers.
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Tucker Carlson’s Private Contempt for Trump: ‘I Hate Him Passionately’
The Fox host’s private comments, revealed in recent court documents, contrast sharply with his support of conservatives on his show.
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Conservative Media Pay Little Attention to Revelations About Fox News
Even in today’s highly partisan media world, experts said, the lack of coverage about the private comments of Fox’s top executives and hosts stands out.
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Fox Leaders Wanted to Break From Trump but Struggled to Make It Happen
Executives and top hosts found themselves in a bind after Donald Trump began pushing unfounded claims about election fraud, court filings show.
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Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods
The conservative media mogul made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
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Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims
On Wednesday, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems shared some of the strongest evidence yet that some Fox employees knew what they broadcast about the claims was false.
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Defamation Suit Against Fox Grows More Contentious
Lachlan Murdoch is set to be deposed on Monday, the latest in a flurry of activity in the high-stakes case.
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Mike Pence Plays to the G.O.P. Base From a Times Stage
Mr. Pence, while promoting his new book at the DealBook Summit, frowned upon the idea of the Justice Department’s taking action against his former boss.
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New York Post Takes Aim at Trump, and Hits a Nerve
The paper’s increasingly harsh coverage has gotten the news media and political worlds talking about whether the Murdoch media empire has broken permanently from the former president.