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- Internal messages show Fox News brass knew 2020 election fraud claims were bunk.
- They still tried to chase an audience fleeing to rival Newsmax, Dominion said in a court filing.
- A new Dominion filing revealed messages among Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and more.
After a mob stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Rupert Murdoch wondered whether Fox News was to blame.
He asked Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, whether "high-profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen" as rioters sought to force Congress to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Murdoch sympathized with Sean Hannity, a Fox News opinion host who was upset his friend Donald Trump lost the election, but worried he gave his millions of viewers the wrong impression.