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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. must face 2020 election defamation lawsuit, appeals court rules
A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election lies on Fox News, dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Smartmatic, the voting ...
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp. faces $2.7 billion lawsuit over Smartmatic defamation claim
A New York state appeals court ruled on Thursday that Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX) (NASDAQ:FOXA), parent of Fox News Network, must face a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic—a UK based voting machinery company.
Fox Must Face Smartmatic’s $2.7 Billion Defamation Lawsuit, Court Rules
The complaint, which arose out of Fox News’s promotion of vote-rigging conspiracy theories after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, is on track to proceed to trial.
Fox Corporation Must Remain Part Of Smartmatic’s Defamation Case, Appellate Court Rules
In 2023, Fox settled a similar lawsuit filed by another election systems company, Dominion Voting Systems, for $787.5 million. Before the settlement, Fox had sought to exclude Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at a trial, but the Delaware judge rejected that request.
MSNBC Mourns and Fox Makes Merry as Trump Season 2 Premieres
The inaugural’s pageantry was interpreted in sharply different ways across the media spectrum. Podcasters weighed in, too.
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Fox News headed for trial, again, over 2020 election fraud claims
In April 2023, on the eve of a trial in Delaware in which Fox founder Rupert Murdoch was set to testify, the network and its parent corporation agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. A flood of ...
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. must face 2020 election defamation lawsuit, appeals court rules
A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic ... dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Smartmatic, the voting technology company ...
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. must face 2020 election defamation lawsuit, appeals court rules
As part of its lawsuit, Smartmatic alleged that Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son ... in the first amended complaint relating to Fox Corporation directing the other defendants to undertake ...
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. must face 2020 election defamation lawsuit, appeals court rules
dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Washington (CNN) — A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit ...
Complaints of Bias, ‘News Distortion’ Against CBS, ABC and NBC Reinstated by Trump-Appointed FCC Chair
Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr has reversed his predecessor Jessica Rosenworcel’s last-minute decision to dismiss three complaints against local CBS, ABC and NBC stations.
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£10 million to spare: Prince Harry wins tabloid legal battle
The Duke of Sussex (or Montecito, these days) achieved the impossible: He got the British tabloids to apologize.
Prince Harry Settles Privacy Case as Murdoch’s ‘The Sun’ Owner Offers Him “Unequivocal Apology”
Prince Harry receives apology from Rupert Murdoch newspapers in settlement deal
Prince Harry claimed a "monumental" victory over Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group on Wednesday after the publisher settled his lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time and paying unspecified damages.
Prince Harry Settles Case Against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids as News Group Newspapers Offers ‘Full and Unequivocal Apology’
Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has agreed to pay substantial damages and issued an apology to Prince Harry, read by his lawyer David Sherborne, of the “serious intrusion by The Sun into his private life … including the unlawful gathering” of information on him.