Fox News Lied for Ratings
Rupert Murdoch admits under oath that everyone at Fox knew the 2020 election "was on the up-and-up," but still broadcast Trump's Big Lie for ratings and profit.
The Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit has exposed the hypocrisy and lies of Fox News desperate to maintain ratings after Trump attacked them as "disloyal and dishonest." Internal communications and under oath testimony has revealed that Fox hosts and executives made the decision to knowingly repeat Trump's lies of election fraud to keep viewers from switching to more conservative news outlets.
“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight,” Rupert Murdoch said of the election fraud narrative. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods, New York Times | 2/27/2023
By Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson
Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, spoke under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
Video: Why Fox is 'the most destructive institution in all of American politics', MSNBC | 2/28/2023
“The people at Fox News are following one of the most reliable recipes for really destructive, dangerous, cruel behavior,” says Chris Hayes. “They’ve got a lot of power, but they are terrified of losing it.”