Judge sanctions Fox News for withholding evidence in Dominion lawsuit and plans to investigate possible misconduct.

Attorneys defending Fox News in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit related to false claims about the 2020 election have angered a Delaware judge by withholding critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch played at Fox News. The judge said Fox lawyers previously represented that Murdoch was not an officer for the subsidiary cable network, which could have led him to make different rulings earlier on in the case. Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and its parent Fox Corp on claims the network repeatedly aired baseless statements about voter fraud during the wake of the 2020 presidential election.