Rupert Murdoch and the lawsuit blowing open Fox News

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

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Rupert Murdoch has been drawn into a defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News for spreading the conspiracy theory that the 2020 US election was rigged. Ed Pilkington reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:07.7	Today, the billion dollar lawsuit,
0:10.0	blowing the inner workings of Fox News, wide open.
0:18.6	Cast your mind back to November 2020.
0:24.0	And it is seven o'clock on the East Coast,
0:26.4	which means polls have just closed in half a dozen states.
0:29.2	The most closely watched state at this hour is the
0:31.2	most closely watched state at this hour.
0:33.2	Everyone on the edge of their seats, waiting for the results from a handful of American states,
0:37.3	that at least felt like they would decide the future of American democracy.
0:42.4	One of the most important states was Arizona.
0:46.0	And the first network to call it for Joe Biden was Fox News.
0:52.0	The Fox News decision desk is calling Arizona for Joe Biden.
0:55.4	That is a big get for the Biden campaign.
1:01.2	That night, it came as a shock that such a partisan news channel was choosing to put the truth
1:07.4	over what its viewers wanted so badly to be true.
1:11.7	And those viewers, they were pissed.
1:14.2	And they're actually chanting Fox News sucks.
1:18.7	Fox News sucks.
1:20.2	The reason why they're chanting that is because Fox News is calling Fox News.
1:22.7	And pretty soon Fox got in line.
1:25.6	It's biggest stars started echoing the wild conspiracies being spread by Trump and his allies.
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