Will Rupert Murdoch be damaged by the Fox News and Dominion case?
By Katie RazzallOn that day in 2011, the world's most powerful media mogul was called before Parliament's culture and media committee as the phone hacking scandal engulfed his UK newspaper operations.
Fox News argued it was fighting a court case against voting machine company Dominion in the interests of free speech, a US First Amendment right. The network carried on giving a platform to people endorsing the views of Donald Trump and his supporters that the election had been stolen - in part, it seems, because it didn't want to upset its viewers.Former president Donald Trump, pictured at the NRA annual meeting last week, repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen
Perhaps, for Murdoch, the final straw was the prospect of facing another public humiliation, this time in court. Fox's lawyers had failed to persuade the judge that he shouldn't be called to the stand. Ruthlessness and risk-taking built the Murdoch empire, whether that was his victory over the print unions in the early days of his ownership of the Times and Sunday Times, or his determination to create the right-wing Fox News, credited with helping get Trump elected in 2016.
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