Dominion Voting Systems filing asks: 'What is Rupert Murdoch’s rationale for not retracting' election lies?

09 March 2023

Dominion Voting Systems is calling on Fox News to admit its 2020 election lies to its millions of viewers, NBC reports.

This comes a few weeks after the voting tech firm's "explosive court filing," which "revealed multiple Fox News hosts and producers didn't believe many of the false claims that were airing on their network.

Dominion's newest filing notes, according to NBC, "After giving a platform to allies of former President Donald Trump falsely claiming Dominion 'flipped' millions of votes to Joe Biden, the network 'still refuses to level with its audience.'"

The company continued, "Despite having conceded it was all a lie, and despite internal documents proving they knew it was a lie all along, Fox still will not retract the lies and tell its audience the truth."

Regarding an email Murdoch sent to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott days following the Jan. 6 attack, CNBC reports he wrote, "Maybe Sean [Hannity] and Laura [Ingraham] went too far. All very well for Sean to tell you he was in despair about Trump but what did he tell his viewers?"

According to NBC, Dominion lawyers wrote, "What is Rupert Murdoch's rationale for not retracting? Not that the truth is still in doubt. He admitted he 'never believed' that Dominion rigged the election. And he 'could have' stopped the defamatory statements from airing at the time '[b]ut I didn't.' Yet he believes it is 'too late' to retract and refuses to apologize."

The filing included a statement regarding the right-wing network's hosts' decision to "stop airing the allegations because they knew they would have to 'tell the truth' if they did so." NBC reports Dominion was referring to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

NBC reports:

Dominion said in the court filing that "Fox is trying to conflate telling the truth with knowingly spreading a lie. News outlets across the political spectrum — including Rupert Murdoch’s own Wall Street Journal and New York Post — reported on the lies being told about Dominion, back in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election.

NBC's full report is available at this link. CNBC's report is here.

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