Rupert Murdoch to testify in Dominion voting machine defamation case

Billionaire media mogul, 91, will sit for deposition next week about claims Fox News deliberately spread falsehoods over 2020 election

A defamation lawsuit claiming Fox News purposely promoted false claims that a voting tech company rigged the 2020 election is set to reach the apex of the media empire next week when the channel's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is scheduled to sit for a deposition.

Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox for $1.6bn, are seeking to learn what knowledge the 91-year-old billionaire might have of his company's repeated broadcasts of the untruthful allegations.