Bombshell legal filings in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News prompted Democratic leaders in Congress to send a letter to Rupert Murdoch and Fox leadership, urging the right-wing media mogul to direct the network’s top personalities to stop spreading false narratives surrounding the 2020 presidential election.
A letter from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries demanded that network hosts such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “admit on the air that they were wrong to engage in such negligent behavior” by providing a platform for a baseless narrative that the election was compromised.
