Fox News Network account and owner Rupert Murdoch it could rise even more if another voting technology company, Smartmatic, wins its own $2.7 billion lawsuit. Opas in the case of the Dominion, Smartmatic sues Fox News over cyberfraud conspiracy theories and fake news in 2020 Joe Biden.

As part of the settlement, Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million. This is about half of the $1.6 billion originally claimed by Dominion. However, the Australian-born press mogul is at least accustomed… to being sued.

It is worth noting that the information giant Murdoch owned – until 2000 – more than 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a fortune of more than $ 17.6 billion. In 2007, he also acquired the financial press flagship Wall Street Journal.

Big wiretapping scandal and isolation in “News of The World”

In 2006, the first accusations of phone tapping appeared in the News of the World, one of the most widely circulated British newspapers of the time. The big reveal happened on July 4, 2011. It was then that it was revealed that almost a decade ago, a private investigator hired by the newspaper intercepted the voice message of a missing teenage girl, Millie Dowler, who was later found murdered.

Amid public backlash and a massive ad withdrawal, News International announced it was shutting down the paper on 7 July 2011.

The scandal came to a head when it became known that the newspaper had also tapped the phones of the families of British soldiers killed in action. On July 8, 2011, former publisher Andy Colson and editor Clive Goodman were arrested. The last one went to jail in 2007.

During a visit to London on February 17, 2012, Murdoch announced the launch of Sun’s Sunday edition to replace News of the World.

The financial impact of the scandal has topped £1bn, or $1.24bn, according to a 2021 survey by the Press Gazette, a British media industry publication.

In 2019, Murdoch sold most of his entertainment business to rival media companies. He retained the US Fox chain, the HarperCollins book publisher, and a number of newspapers, including the Times, The Sun, and the Wall Street Journal. But attempts to reunite the empire, which was divided to limit the effects of the News of the World wiretapping scandal, were abandoned earlier this year.

Controversy with Prince Harry and other celebrities

Murdoch’s legal “suffering” does not end there, as Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other famous Britons have decided to sue the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper, alleging phone surveillance and other violations of privacy.

Celebrities suing the Daily Mail also include actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, film producer David Furnish (Elton John’s partner) and Doreen Lawrence, mother of teenager Stephen Lawrence who died in a racist attack in 1993.

The Associated Newspapers group, which owns the Daily Mail, denied the accusations, calling them “baseless” and “grossly defamatory”.

According to law firm Hamlins, the plaintiffs have evidence against the Associated Newspers Group for a breach of confidentiality. He mentions, for example, placing bedbugs in cars and houses, as well as wiretapping.

Hamlins law firm represents Prince Harry and actress Sadie Frost. Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Harley and Doreen Lawrence are represented by Gunnercook.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan fell out with British tabloids after the couple got married in 2018. They made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with the four major newspapers, including the Daily Mail, accusing them of lying.

The suffocating pressure they felt from the media was one of the reasons the Harry-Meghan couple explained why they made the decision to step down from royal duties and move to the United States.

According to CNN