The judge presiding over the defamation lawsuit against Fox News said he would allow Dominion to talk generally about threats it had received to show how it has been damaged by the Fox broadcasts.
FILE - Rupert Murdoch introduces Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Herman Kahn Award Gala on Oct. 30, 2019, in New York. Attorneys defending Fox in a defamation case related to false claims about the 2020 election withheld critical information about the role company founder Murdoch played at Fox News, a revelation that angered the judge when it came up at a hearing Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
The role of Fox executives is at the heart of the case. The company’s attorneys have sought to insulate members of the Murdoch family and to keep them from testifying live before a jury, arguing that their roles at the parent company, Fox Corp., put them at a distance from the Fox News shows that aired the bogus claims.in 2021 that Rupert Murdoch had no official role at Fox News. In its filings, it had listed Fox News officers as Suzanne Scott, Jay Wallace and Joe Dorrego.
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