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The unfounded theory had far-reaching consequences, from the January 2021 riot at the US Capitol to ongoing threats against state election officials.
Apart from Fox’s fortunes, the trial could help set the record straight on the 2020 vote and affect “elections and election administration going into 2024”, said Lawrence Norden, director of the election reform program at the Brennan Centre for Justice of New York University’s law school.
“There are a lot of people who don’t necessarily pay close attention to these issues, who may have heard things about voting machines and fraud, and they don’t really know what to believe,” Norden said. If Fox is found liable, it is “likely to break through to those people”, he said.
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Apart from Fox’s fortunes, the trial could help set the record straight on the 2020 vote and affect “elections and election administration going into 2024”, said Lawrence Norden, director of the election reform program at the Brennan Centre for Justice of New York University’s law school.
“There are a lot of people who don’t necessarily pay close attention to these issues, who may have heard things about voting machines and fraud, and they don’t really know what to believe,” Norden said. If Fox is found liable, it is “likely to break through to those people”, he said.
Murdoch, Fox face $2.3b trial over 2020 election as Trump surges
Rupert Murdoch could be called as a witness as early as Monday to be grilled about his failure to rein in network claims of vote rigging despite his own belief that Donald Trump’s claims were baseless.
