Fox News commentators, including Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, "endorsed" claims on their shows that the U.S. election was stolen from Donald Trump, the channel’s owner Rupert Murdoch acknowledged, Joe Miller and Anna Nicolaou of The Financial Times report. Fox News and its owner Fox Corp. is facing a $1.6B defamation lawsuit over its coverage of the election. In a sworn testimony given earlier this year, Murdoch denied the news channel pushed the narrative the election was fraudulently awarded to Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Murdoch did admit commentators such as Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo endorsed the idea to varying degrees. Reference Link
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