He will have tried everything to avoid this bad publicity.
In vain.
This time, media magnate Rupert Murdoch can no longer avoid a lawsuit against his news channel Fox News, the most watched in the United States.
On Friday, a judge of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, Eric Davis, swept aside the arguments of the broadcaster, who had taken refuge behind the first amendment of the American Constitution, protecting the freedom of expression of the press.
The conservative chain of the Fox Corp group will be well tried for defamation, before a civil jury.
A first victory for Dominion Voting Systems, the company which accuses Fox News of having asserted, on several occasions, that its devices had been used to distort the results of the presidential election of November 2020 in several regions of the United States.
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However, as Judge Eric Davis pointed out, “
the evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that it is crystal clear that none of the statements relating…
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