Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News faces Newsmax lawsuit accusing him of using influence to stifle competition
It would be that a court decides whether FOX’s hardball line has been violated by the antitröst law.
Considering its enormous success and profitability, any legal judgment that prevents Fox’s Modus Operandi is risky.
Newsmax claims that Rupert Murdoch’s fox has a long history in using the market power.Credit: Bloomberg
Fox calls sour grapes. “Newsmax cannot come out of its own competitive failures in the market to chase headlines because they can’t just attract viewers.”
“Fox uses this market power to force or forcing other right -leaning news channels, including distributors Newsmax, to forcing or marginalize.”
Fox continues to say that guests have hired special detectives to investigate the opponent’s network and to investigate Newsmax managers. It was a dirty tactic that Newsmax said it was FOX’s form, and in 2016 by making a legal action that claims to be sexual harassment and supervision by a Fox News server Andrea Tantaros. He claimed that Fox had rented a social media agency directly or indirectly called Disruptor and hired it to scribble and discredit it.
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According to Tantaros’ complaint against Fox News, Fox’s public relations chief was the target of the vicious social media campaigns organized by Fox’s famous “Land Room”, allegedly used for illegal operations against those who dare to criticize or encounter FOX.
According to the complaint, Fox used thousands of fake social media accounts or “socks puppets ından, which emitted smear by Bigani’s order and sent negative comments about Tantaros.
Newsmax claims that Fox has a long history to use the market power that must have a television content to produce positive terms from distributors in FOX News transport negotiations.
The 2019 FOX example offers the example that attracts its channels from Dish just before the start of a new season. Thursday night football. Later, Fox Sports talks about the 2020 dispute with Roku days before it was planned to release Super Bowl. In 2022, during the negotiations with DirectV, FOX threatened to darken most of the sports programs the day before broadcasting the US-Belllans World Cup match. Fox threatened to access Fox Sports from Optimum viewers just as I entered Yankees’s 2022 playoffs.
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Legal filing claims in each of these examples that Fox has negotiated with these beings and uses the same deliberate strategy every time: Fox activated his loyal and passionate sports viewers as a pressure campaign against distributors.
The case will be obliged to monitor to determine which right is correct.
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