A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election lies on Fox News, dealing a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media giant. Smartmatic, the voting ...

A New York state appeals court ruled on Thursday that Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX) (NASDAQ:FOXA), parent of Fox News Network, must face a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic—a UK based voting machinery company.

The complaint, which arose out of Fox News’s promotion of vote-rigging conspiracy theories after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, is on track to proceed to trial.

A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s mammoth defamation lawsuit over the airing of 2020 election lies on Fox News, dealing a blow to the Rupert ...

In 2023, Fox settled a similar lawsuit filed by another election systems company, Dominion Voting Systems, for $787.5 million. Before the settlement, Fox had sought to exclude Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at a trial, but the Delaware judge rejected that request.

Harry had vowed to take his case to trial to publicly expose the newspaper’s wrongdoing and win a court ruling upholding his claims.

NGN also apologized to the Duke for the impact on him of the "extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales."

The conservative media mogul’s British newspapers division, known as News Group Newspapers (NGN), offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life,

The foundation created by Bill Gates – the philanthropist committed to fighting the world’s greatest inequities, or conspirator-in-chief of the global elite, depending on your world-view – is donating $700,000 to the Independent Media Group to be spent on journalism in “under-reported” parts of the world.

Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer said on Wednesday, after the start of a long-awaited trial was unexpectedly delayed.

Aaron Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in Fox Co. (NASDAQ:FOXA – Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm purchased 4,

"The themes of 2025 will in many ways be continuations of the themes of 2024, and for several media companies, that is exactly the problem," notes MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman.