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Lachlan Murdoch knew Fox News claim of stolen US election was false, Crikey will argue in defamation trial

Publisher’s defence in case brought by News Corp co-chairman relies in part upon Dominion’s US suit against media giant

The Guardian - AU

Dominion can discuss general threats in Fox defamation trial

The judge presiding over a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing bogus allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election has indicated he will allow jurors to hear some testimony about threats directed at the company, but only to a point

The Independent UK

Anyone can claim to be a journalist or a news organization, and publish lies with almost total impunity

Headlines in early March 2023 implied Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch had made a damning confession. He had affirmed that some of his most important journalists were reporting that the 2020 presidential election was a fraud – even though they knew they were propagating a lie.

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Judge: Murdoch can be forced to testify

First Amendment scholar "has never seen a case with so much evidence providing a look behind the scenes"

Salon

Murdoch can’t avoid testifying at Dominion trial, judge says

Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan can’t avoid testifying at trial if they’re subpoenaed by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. in the company’s $1.6 billion defamation suit over Fox News’s airing of false claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election, a judge said.

Tribune News Service

Murdochs can be made to testify in Fox defamation trial

A US judge says voting technology company Dominion can call Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify in its $2.4 billion defamation trial against Fox Corp.

The New Daily

Rupert Murdoch and Fox leadership must testify in Dominion trial if subpoenaed, judge rules

A high-profile defamation trial against the network is scheduled to begin in Delaware later this month

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Judge willing to force Rupert Murdoch to testify in $1.6bn Fox News case

US judge says he ‘would not quash’ subpoena from Dominion Voting Systems requesting testimony from mogul and son Lachlan

The Guardian - US

Afternoon Update: TikTok banned on government devices; Jarryd Hayne found guilty of sexual assault; and a huge beer spill in Montana

Australia joins a growing list of nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app

The Guardian - AU

‘Ego and hubris’ in Murdoch versus Crikey defamation fight

Lachlan Murdoch was culpable for damage done by Fox News peddling the lie that the 2020 US election was stolen, the publisher of Crikey has claimed.

The New Daily

Murdoch 'culpable for Fox News false election lie'

Lachlan Murdoch was culpable for damage done by Fox News peddling the lie that the 2020 US election was stolen, the publisher of Crikey has claimed.

AAP

Frustrated judge criticises Lachlan Murdoch, Crikey in court as defamation battle drags out

A defamation battle being waged between media heir Lachlan Murdoch and the publisher of online news site Crikey appears to be driven by "ego and hubris", a judge has declared.

ABC News

Rupert Murdoch took direct role in Fox News 2020 election call, filings reveal

Messages newly released in Dominion Voting Systems defamation case show media mogul discussed when to call Trump’s defeat

The Guardian - US

News Corp gives Barack Obama’s swipe on ‘splintering’ Murdoch media a wide berth

Daily Telegraph fails to land blame on Malcolm Turnbull for the former US president’s comments. Plus: Andrew Bolt scolds Mark Latham

The Guardian - AU

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The Independent UK

Dominion wants Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and other Fox News figures to testify in $1.6bn case

Fox says Dominion’s ‘needlessly expansive’ witness list is a bid to ‘distract from the many shortcomings of its case’

The Guardian - AU

News Corp columnists opt for bothsidesism on Nazis at anti-trans rally

Andrew Bolt and Joe Hildebrand get stuck into socialists; Sky News has a field day about Pocock’s Tame Impala T-shirt

The Guardian - US

Dominion lawsuit is just the start as Fox faces losing friends – and viewers

Beyond the defamation case, Fox News must reckon with an alienated audience and its waning hold over the GOP

The Guardian - AU

Gil McLachlan enters final quarter with AFL facing some of its biggest ever threats

As the departing CEO’s long farewell drags on, there remain existential issues to resolve that may be beyond his control

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphs at Oscars

Multiverse fantasy picks up seven awards including best picture and best actress while All Quiet on the Western Front wins four. Plus, long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms 20 years on

The New Daily

2020 US election: Why is Fox News being sued by Dominion Voting Systems?

Documents in Dominions case against Fox News show evidence that Rupert Murdoch's media company knew it was peddling lies.

The Guardian - US

Tucker Carlson firestorm over Trump texts threatens to engulf Fox News

The network is facing a $1.6bn false-claims lawsuit – and its top star’s private texts about the ex-president are causing anguish

The Guardian - US

‘Lachlan’s in the mire’: Fox News case spells trouble for Murdoch heir

Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, who oversaw the network’s slavishly pro-Trump line, features prominently in evidence revealed in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit

The Independent UK

Records in Fox defamation case show pressures on reporters

Documents from a defamation lawsuit against Fox News illustrate the pressures its journalists faced in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election

Salon

"It is not red or blue, it is green"

When spreading lies, does the motive matter?

The Independent UK

Court records show political pressure behind Fox programming

Thousands of pages of documents in a recent lawsuit show that Fox News' top executives sometimes were actively involved in politics rather than simply reporting or offering opinions on it

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