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A New Murdoch Suit & R.F.K.’s Cable Bomb

A group of angry investors is suing Fox News, claiming that its pandering to right-wing conspiracies saddled the company with legal costs they should have avoided. Murdoch is claiming free speech outweighs fiduciary responsibility, and many in the media are hoping he wins.

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Fox shareholders claim the board ignored clear defamation risks, saddling the company with astronomical legal costs á la the Dominion settlement. Photo: Jean Catuffe/GC Images
Eriq Gardner
November 27, 2024

Last Friday, I dropped by the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center—the Wilmington courthouse where Fox News chose to settle its defamation case with Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million in April 2023—to observe a new Fox legal battle attracting far less fanfare: a lawsuit accusing Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants of breaching fiduciary duties by pandering to Donald Trump and nurturing a right-wing audience with a steady diet of misinformation.