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'We have him to thank for the Iraq War': World reacts to Murdoch stepping down

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There was mixed reaction to the news of Rupert Murdoch resigning as while some called him a 'visionary leader' while others claimed he had 'intruded' on the public

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Hacked Off, a movement created in 2011 to protect the victims of press abuse, responded to the news by highlighting the case of the“Rupert Murdoch presided over a company where widespread illegality occurred and was subsequently covered up,” the Hacked Off CEO, Nathan Sparkes, said. “Every day, News UK’s unregulated newspaper publishers intrude on the lives of ordinary people and publish falsities with impunity.

“But changing the man at the head of News Corp won’t make a difference – the problems in the Murdoch press and other parts of the national newspaper industry are systemic and can only be resolved with independent regulation.” An MSNBC presenter, Mehdi Hasan, linked Mr Murdoch’s influence and Fox’s news agenda to different political events in the past 20 years.

He said in a post on X that “some of the worst things we have had to experience in recent years – the Iraq war, the rise of Trump, the Big Election Lie – are all thanks to him and Fox”. As Rupert Murdoch announces his 'retirement', a reminder that some of the worst things we have had to experience in recent years – the Iraq war, the rise of Trump, the Big Election Lie – are all thanks to him and to Fox.

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