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Fox owner Rupert Murdoch called stolen US election claims ‘crazy’, court filings show

Motion in defamation case details internal concerns about allegations from Donald Trump and his allies

Rupert Murdoch described allegations that the 2020 US election was stolen from Donald Trump as “damaging” and “crazy” even as his Fox News channel continued to air the claims, according to filings from a defamation lawsuit against the network.

The billionaire media mogul, who owns Fox, repeatedly emailed his concerns to Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott during the chaotic weeks and months following the election, as some US states took days to count votes and Trump railed that the process was rigged, according to the filing.

The messages were part of a court filing from voting technology group Dominion asking a Delaware judge to rule in its favour on a $1.6bn defamation claim brought against Fox for defamation in March 2021.

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