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Fox Chief Murdoch confesses: Some hosts “endorsed” the lie

The Beat with Ari Melber

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Dominion vs Fox News - What's the Standard for Defamation?

Gene Seymour: Rupert Murdoch says he didn't want to antagonize Trump because he had a very large following and there were probably mostly viewers of Fox. He's really giving up motivations in this case where the numbers are actually big enough to affect him and his company? Seymour: This is all about audience strategies. It's all about telling people what is more likely to make them keep watching Fox rather than telling people any truth. They knew that Sidney Powell, who was saying all the stuff about the company, you know, being founded by Hugo Chavez, one dad in Venezuela, and rigged the balloting and stuff. Yet they committed what I've always been taught is the sin, the greatest sin

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