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Source: The Hill | March 7, 2023 | Dominick Mastrangelo

Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump’s false claims about 2020 election

Rupert Murdoch, owner and co-chairman of Fox Corp, worried to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that top hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” in endorsing former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, new court filings show.

In an email dated Jan. 21, 2021, Murdoch wrote to Scott bemoaning the network was still “getting mud thrown at us” over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and for suggestions that the rhetoric of top talent at the network could have contributed to the attack.

“Maybe Sean and Laura went too far,” Murdoch wrote to Scott, Fox News’ top executive, according to the filing. “All very well for Sean to tell you he was in despair about Trump but what did he tell his viewers?”

The court filings were made late Tuesday by Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox for defamation seeking $1.6 billion in damages, arguing the network knowingly aired false claims about its software.

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