This week in The Fin podcast, senior writer Neil Chenoweth on the events leading up to the multibillion-dollar legal battle between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems and what it means for the Murdoch media empire. And reporter Mark Di Stefano tells us about the money and the PR machine behind the case.

Background reading:

• Murdochs can’t avoid testifying Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan, cannot avoid testifying at trial if they are subpoenaed by Dominion Voting Systems in the company’s $US1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) defamation suit over Fox News’s airing of false claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election, a judge said.
• Jury to weigh Murdochs’ role in Fox-Dominion trial One of the most closely watched US defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $US1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) for spreading election-rigging falsehoods.
• ‘Really crazy stuff’: Emails reveal Murdoch trashing Trump poll claims Emails and texts unearthed as part of a major US defamation case against Fox Corporation reveal Rupert Murdoch labelling the Trump campaign’s false claims about election fraud as “really crazy stuff” and “damaging”.

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