福克斯新闻频道老板鲁珀特·默多克在宣誓作证时说福克斯新闻频道根据多米宁投票系统周一提交给法院的一份新文件，故意允许谎言在广播中播出的高管“应该受到斥责”或“可能被解雇”。
文件显示，他在作证时说，“我希望我们在事后更强烈地谴责这种行为。”。
这些声明是Dominion在法庭文件中披露的最新消息，作为其十亿美元的诽谤诉讼反对电视网，该电视网显示福克斯新闻频道的主持人和雇员私下怀疑Dominion的投票机以某种方式操纵了总统选举，使之有利于乔·拜登。
周一提交的最新文件披露了一些高管的更多私人通信和思维过程，主要是默多克，他上个月宣誓作证。
在他的证词中，默多克说，除了招待客人推动窃取选举索赔，“我们的一些评论员赞同它。”
“我想你已经给我看了一些支持这一观点的材料，”他说。
根据文件，默多克在他的信息中的一个例子中告诉《纽约邮报》记者，前纽约市长鲁迪·朱利安尼“对唐纳德产生了可怕的影响”，特朗普所说的话是“b*******和破坏性的”。
”福克斯新闻频道很忙地绕轴旋转...根据该文件，默多克在2021年1月的另一封电子邮件中写道:“我们希望特朗普不是人。”。
福克斯新闻频道周一在给美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)的一份声明中说，“道明的诉讼一直更多地是关于什么会成为头条新闻，而不是什么能经得起法律和事实的审查，正如他们现在被迫在他们自己的专家揭穿其令人难以置信的索赔后，将他们幻想的赔偿要求削减超过5亿美元所表明的那样。”。“他们的简易判决动议对诽谤法采取了极端、无根据的观点，该法将阻止记者进行基本报道，他们公开诽谤福克斯报道和评论美国现任总统的指控的努力应该得到承认:这是对第一修正案的公然违反。”
根据Dominion的文件，福克斯的最高级别律师，FC首席法律和政策官Viet Dinh也表示，高管们有义务“防止和纠正已知的谎言”。
在这张2018年10月30日的资料照片中，鲁珀特·默多克在赫尔曼·卡恩颁奖晚会上介绍了国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥。
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文件还称，“在特朗普竞选期间，鲁珀特向特朗普的女婿兼高级顾问贾里德·库什纳提供了有关拜登广告的福克斯机密信息，以及辩论策略。”
尽管当福克斯新闻频道在大选之夜第一个给亚利桑那州打电话支持拜登时，这种关系似乎发生了变化。
文件显示，默多克在证词中说，“我的朋友贾里德·库什纳打电话给我说，‘这太可怕了’，我可以听到背景中特朗普的声音在喊。”。“我说，‘好吧，数字就是数字。’"
此外，根据文件，默多克作证说，他“非常清楚”特朗普对福克斯在亚利桑那州的电话不满意。
默多克还表示，在选举后不久与参议员米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)的通话中，默多克“敦促他要求其他资深共和党人拒绝支持特朗普的阴谋论和毫无根据的欺诈指控”，这“可能是真的”
在另一个例子中，默多克给保罗·瑞安发短信说，“特朗普周六听起来真的很疯狂。”
根据该文件，这条短信是对瑞安12月6日的一条信息的回应，他说，“我们正在进入一个真正奇怪的阶段，在这个阶段，(特朗普)实际上已经说服自己相信这场闹剧，并将做更多奇怪的事情来使选举非法化”。
“我认为这是福克斯的一个关键转折点，正确的事情和明智的商业行为很好地结合在一起，”瑞安在文件中说。
Rupert Murdoch says Fox hosts 'endorsed' election claims, court filing says
Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch said in a deposition under oath that anyFox Newsexecutives who knowingly allowed lies to be broadcast on the air "should be reprimanded" or "maybe got rid of," according to a new court filing on Monday by Dominion Voting Systems.
"I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight," he said during his deposition, according to the documents.
The statements are the latest to be revealed in court filings by Dominion as part of itsbillion-dollar defamation suitagainst the network, which has shown Fox News hosts and employees privately doubting the claims that Dominion's voting machines had somehow rigged the presidential election in Joe Biden's favor.
The latest filing Monday reveals even more of the private communications and thought processes of some of its top executives-- mainly Murdoch, who testified under oath last month.
In his deposition, Murdoch said that beyond hosting guests pushing stolen election claims, "some of our commentators were endorsing it."
"I think you've shown me some material in support of that," he said.
In one example of his messages, Murdoch told a New York Post reporter that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was "a terrible influence on Donald" and what Trump was saying was "b******* and damaging," according to the filing.
"Fox News very busy pivoting ... We want to make Trump a non person," Murdoch wrote in another email, in January 2021, according to the filing.
"Dominion's lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny, as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims," Fox News said in a statement to ABC News on Monday. "Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear FOX for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment."
According to the Dominion filing, Fox's highest-ranking lawyer, FC Chief Legal and Policy Officer Viet Dinh, also said executives would have an obligation "to prevent and correct known falsehoods."
The filing also says, "During Trump's campaign, Rupert provided Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about Biden's ads, along with debate strategy."
Though the relationship appeared to change when Fox News was the first to call Arizona in Biden's favor on election night.
"My friend Jared Kushner called me saying, 'This is terrible,' and I could hear Trump's voice in the background shouting," Murdoch said in his deposition, according to the filing. "And I said, 'well, the numbers are the numbers.'"
Additionally, Murdoch testified that he was "very much aware" that Trump was not happy with Fox's Arizona call, according to the filing.
Murdoch also said it was "probably true" that during a call with Sen. Mitch McConnell shortly after the election that Murdoch had "urged him to ask other senior Republicans to refuse to endorse Mr. Trump's conspiracy theories and baseless claims of fraud."
In another instance, Murdoch texted Paul Ryan, saying, "Trump on Saturday sounded really crazy."
The text was in response to a Dec. 6 message from Ryan saying that "we are entering a truly bizarre phase of this where [Trump] has actually convinced himself of this farce and will do more bizarre things to delegitimize the election," according to the filing.
"I see this as a key inflection point for Fox, where the right thing and the smart business thing to do line up nicely," Ryan said, according to the filing.
