Murdoch hounded by lawsuits that could cost Fox News billions

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https://pressrun.media/p/murdoch-hounded-by-lawsuits-that?s=w

Eric Boehlert

Rupert Murdoch for years has enjoyed a Trump-like ability to avoid responsibility for the avalanche of lies he promotes. That all may be changing thanks to a pair of billion-dollar defamation lawsuits surrounding Trump’s Big Lie campaign — Murdoch appears powerless to stop the looming legal reckoning.

This week, Justice David Cohen of State Supreme Court in Manhattan issued a stinging rebuke of Fox News. Denying the network’s attempt to dismiss a $2.7 billion lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, the election technology company that Fox smeared as part of Trump’s Big Lie offensive following the 2020 campaign, Cohen waved off Murdoch’s attorneys.

“Even assuming that Fox News did not intentionally allow this false narrative to be broadcasted, there is a substantial basis for plaintiffs’ claim that, at a minimum, Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs, unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth,” Cohen wrote in his 61-page opinion. The judge repeatedly signaled that the lawsuit can proceed because there’s a reasonable chance that a jury would find Fox guilty of defamation.

The finding comes just three months after a judge in Delaware issued an identical ruling in another defamation lawsuit against Fox News, this one seeking $1.6 billion in damages. That one was brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which claimed Murdoch’s network smeared the election software company by casting it as a central villain in the GOP’s “rigged” charade.

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[UpInArms]

1. I hope Faux is sued into bankruptcy

and Murdoch dies penniless

[PortTack]

2. Not sure why, loss of advertisers possibly, fux posted an 83 million loss last reported quarter

This evil man and his f..k heads are as responsible for the state of the world right now as Putin and dotard

[wnylib]

3. Excellent news.

[secondwind]

4. K&R !!!

[BComplex]

5. May Rupert Murdock and his spawn and their fascist pundits all rot in hell.

They're so toxic even buzzards wouldn't eat their carcasses.

[Sherman A1]

6. Good,

Hopefully, they will sue him and his playmates into the dirt. The lot of them selling pencils on a street corner to make ends meet would be fine with me.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Interesting timing, just last night I was thinking about that greedy POS

I was thinking about his wife, Jerry Hall. How can an American model and ex Rolling Stone wife even consider dating, let alone marry, that fucked up bastard? I have been tempted to email Jerry Hall and ask her what the Hell she is thinking as an American! Doesn't she give a shit about the US? She doesn't need the $$$, she was married to Mick Jagger for God's sake.

[JudyM]

8. Kicking with pleasure.