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Fox News hosts and executives privately mocked pro-Trump election conspiracy theories after he lost, internal texts show

By BusinessInsider

After a mob stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Rupert Murdoch wondered whether Fox News was to blame.

He asked Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, whether “high-profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen” as rioters sought to force Congress to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. 

Murdoch sympathized with Sean Hannity, a Fox News opinion host who was upset his friend Donald Trump lost the election, but worried he gave his millions of viewers the wrong impression…

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