“We have been litigating based on this false premise that Rupert Murdoch wasn’t an officer of Fox News,” attorney Justin Nelson told a judge.
Fox News has apologized to the judge presiding over a defamation case against the network following a late-stage revelation about Rupert Murdoch’s role at the network.
The role of Fox executives is at the heart of the $1.6 billion defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the conservative network and its parent company, Fox Corporation, for repeatedly airing false claims related to the 2020 presidential election.
Attorneys had repeatedly stated that Murdoch did not have an official role at Fox News and that he was among top executives removed from day-to-day decisions that allowed false election claims to be aired on Fox News programs.
But Fox disclosed a week ago that that Murdoch is “executive chair” at Fox News, a revelation that angered Superior Court Judge Eric Davis.
