Lachlan Murdoch
Included on the basis of: Associated participant / materially involved — Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC (2021–2023)
This inclusion basis documents a material connection to a qualifying record above; it does not classify Lachlan Murdoch as an extremist or as anti-democratic, or assert that they personally meet any of ExtremismLedger's inclusion criteria.
Chief Executive Officer, Fox Corporation.
Documented claims
Dominion's litigation complaint alleged that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch were "deeply involved" in shaping Fox's editorial decisions regarding 2020 election coverage.
- What we've learned from the unsealed Fox News-Dominion court documents — CNBC (03/07/2023) [Primary]
Dominion characterized Lachlan Murdoch's deposition testimony as showing he was "kept awake at night" by concerns about ratings and competition following the 2020 election; Fox publicly disputed this characterization as a "misattributed" quote. The verbatim testimony quoted in the unsealed court papers has Murdoch speaking about ratings generally, not specifically about election coverage: "You know, you get a few gray hairs from being awake at -- sports ratings or news ratings or entertainment ratings are probably the worst so."
- What we've learned from the unsealed Fox News-Dominion court documents — CNBC (03/07/2023) [Primary]
Lachlan Murdoch, along with Suzanne Scott, was reported to have made the decision to part ways with Tucker Carlson in April 2023, one week after the Dominion settlement.
- Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox News in Shakeup After Settlement — Bloomberg (04/24/2023) [Primary]
Relationships
- What we've learned from the unsealed Fox News-Dominion court documents — CNBC (03/07/2023) [Primary]