Rupert Murdoch has revealed that he has never watched Succession, the HBO hit loosely based on his life as the patriarch of an unruly billionaire family and as the head of the rightwing media empire that is now under growing pressure amid a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
Filings in the lawsuit, brought by Dominion Voting Systems, included candid admissions from Murdoch, 92, and those who work for him, showing how senior Fox News figures did not believe Donald Trump’s lie about electoral fraud in his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden but did not stop broadcasting them for fear of losing viewers to rightwing rivals.
