Fox Corporation sued for exposing retirement fund to defamation after broadcasting 2020 election falsehoods

A person walks past the News Corp. and Fox News headquarters on April 19, 2023, in New York. New York City

A person walks past the News Corp. and Fox News headquarters on April 19, 2023, in New York. New York City’s pension funds and the state of Oregon sued Fox Corporation on Tuesday, Sept. 12. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New York City pension funds and the Oregon attorney general have joined forces to sue Fox News Corporation and allege in a new complaint that the right-wing media giant has damaged shareholder value by repeatedly disseminating false and allegedly defamatory information about the 2020 election, including claims of election rigging.

Filed in the Delaware Chancery Court, the joint lawsuit arrives as Fox only freshly settled a defamation case this April brought against it by Dominion Voting Systems, the voting machine company at the center of former President Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims.

Fox News agreed to settle the case with Dominion for $787.5 million after the judge in the case issued a summary judgment that Fox’s claims about the machines being rigged were not only false but spread for the sake of the company’s profit motives. The ruling severely limited Fox News’ possible defenses at trial.

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