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Fox News is a division of Fox Corporation, a publicly traded U.S. media company whose , while ordinary equity is widely held by institutional and retail investors. Operational leadership is concentrat...
The Murdoch family is widely identified with conservative political causes and actors, and Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings — including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — have a long record of supp...
Jeffrey Epstein's "little black book" is a collection of contact entries—names, phone numbers, addresses and other notes—recovered from his properties and circulated publicly in redacted and unredacte...
Executive Summary Donald Trump in the materials provided; instead, the documents and reporting cited here document Trump’s deposition in unrelated civil and fraud matters, litigation against Rupert Mu...
Fox Corporation was created in March 2019 as the remainder of 21st Century Fox after Disney bought most entertainment assets; control of the new Fox remains concentrated in the Murdoch family via a fa...
Newsweek’s reported ownership mix — including stakes tied to Larry Ellison, Dev Pragad, and other media actors — has raised questions about on editorial lines and newsroom decisions; coverage of these...
Fox News is a wholly owned operating unit of Fox Corporation, a publicly traded company with a dual-class share structure that concentrates voting control in Murdoch-linked Class B shares (public Clas...
Fox News is owned by Fox Corporation, the public company formed after Disney bought much of 21st Century Fox in 2019; the Murdoch family retains decisive control through voting shares and a family tru...
Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and News Corp are all publicly traded media conglomerates, but their : Comcast features concentrated voting control tied to its founding famil...
Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak‑born British publisher, media proprietor and former Member of Parliament who built a large international publishing empire (Pergamon, Mirror Group, Macmillan) and die...
Tucker Carlson’s public allegations against Fox News center on claims that the network censored and ousted him as part of legal and corporate deals, promoted , and enforced contract restrictions after...
At root, the apparent drive by figures such as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to disrupt a peaceful international order reflects calculable mixes of power projection, personal prestige and domestic p...
Fox News was launched in 1996 as part of Rupert Murdoch’s television holdings and remained under Murdoch family control through successive corporate restructurings: from News Corporation to 21st Centu...
Public records and reporting show multiple Murdoch family members — most prominently James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn — have publicly donated to Democratic candidates and Democratic-aligned causes, ...
Yes — Murdoch-owned outlets were actively covering and taking political positions in 2016, most visibly when The Sun endorsed Vote Leave during the June 2016 Brexit referendum , and when Murdoch’s 21s...
Litigation and internal documents produced in the Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits expose a trove of internal texts, emails, employee surveys and deposition material that illuminate Fox News’s editori...
Fox News is widely documented in academic research and media-rating projects as skewing to the right and favoring Republican politicians, and multiple empirical studies link its entry and viewership t...
Roger Ailes, as Fox News’s long-time chief, cultivated and protected powerful on-air talent and fought to shield senior men from consequences even as harassment allegations accumulated, while Rupert M...
The Murdoch family's political orientation—long associated with conservative editorial lines at flagship outlets such as Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post—has concrete implicatio...
Available reporting in mid–2025 consistently describes the Murdoch family trust as controlling roughly 39–40% of Fox Corporation’s voting stock, and that control was preserved through trust structures...