A Delaware Superior Court Judge denied Fox News’ parent company Fox Corp.’s motion to dismiss the suit presented by Dominion Voting Systems. Bloomberg reports that Judge Eric M. Davis states that the voting-machine maker can sue Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.
The report adds that the company may have operated with “actual malice” in directing the network to promote conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Donald Trump.
Dominion noted in its lawsuit a report that Rupert Murdoch communicated with Trump a few days after the election “and informed him that he had lost,” the judge noted.
“These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” Davis said.
The company has previously disputed that the First Amendment protects its reporting. Bloomberg adds in its reporting that Fox’s press representatives didn’t immediately respond for a comment on the ongoing case.
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