The lawsuit involving the Fox News Network and former U.S. President Donald Trump continues. This week, Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, has been extremely vocal with his opinions regarding the suit and has stated – “Hannity, Ingraham went too far” – this is regarding their promotion of Trump’s false claims regarding the 2020 elections.
As per The Hill, Rupert Murdoch, owner and co-chairman of Fox Corp., discussed with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that top hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” by way of endorsing Trump’s reported false claims concerning the 2020 election, as new court filings show.
In an email dated Jan. 21, 2021, Murdoch wrote to Scott bemoaning the network was still “getting mud thrown at us” over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and for suggestions that the rhetoric of top talent at the network could have contributed to the attack.
“Maybe Sean and Laura went too far,” Murdoch wrote to Scott, Fox News’s top executive, according to the filing. “All very well for Sean to tell you he was in despair about Trump but what did he tell his viewers?”
The court filings were made late Tuesday by Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox for defamation seeking $1.6 billion in damages, arguing the network knowingly aired false claims about its software.
