The FCC could choose to act against Rupert Murdoch for Fox News’ election lies, but few expect it to
Story by Jason Abbruzzese and Kevin Collier •
The primary U.S. media regulator doesn’t have much it can do to punish Fox News for spreading false claims about the 2020 election.
It could, theoretically, target Fox Corp. Chair Rupert Murdoch and some of his Fox broadcasting affiliates.
The Federal Communications Commission’s oversight of Fox’s broadcast licenses means the regulator could bring its power to bear on Murdoch in his admission that he could have stopped Fox News from spreading misleading claims about Dominion Voting Systems, which by extension helped spread the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
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