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The testimony given by Rupert Murdoch as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems may not be the final nail in the coffin for the conservative news network, according to one analyst.

Under questioning by attorneys, the chairman of the conservative media empire admitted that on-air Fox News personalities were allowed to continue to spread 2020 election conspiracy theories despite the fact that they, along with high-ranking executives, knew they were false.

According to a transcript of Rupert Murdoch's testimony in the defamation lawsuit Fox Corp. is currently fighting, the media organization's chairman downplayed the culpability of some of his high-profile employees – while bluntly hanging others out to dry.

As the Washington Post's Aaron Blake noted, Murdoch's testimony will loom large in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit. The election voting machine maker claims Fox promoted lies about Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.

Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip which has been yanked from newspapers across the country due to his racist comments, has only himself to blame for his troubles because he relied on a highly dubious poll when he attacked Black Americans.

That is the opinion of Slate analyst Aymann Ismel who pointed out the Rasmussen poll that the controversial cartoonist used in his diatribe can, at best, be viewed as an attempt to troll non-conservatives. Instead it appears to have ended Adams' career.

Conservative podcast host Charlie Kirk defended embattled Dilbert comic strip writer Scott Adams after he called Black Americans a "hate group."

On the Monday edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk spent 15 minutes defending Adams, who had said white people should "get away" from Black people based on a poll from Rasmussen. The conservative pollster claimed that 26% of Black respondents disagreed that it was "okay to be white."

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) founder Matt Schlapp appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast soon after reports said that Fox News might not carry the event amid groping allegations.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this year, a staffer for former Senate candidate Herschel Walker accused Schlapp of "aggressively fondling" his "genital area in a sustained fashion."

The day after a Fox News host complained on-air that the network is not letting him address the texts and emails between employees that are part of the legal brief in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, the network is balking at selling commercial time to a progressive group armed with an ad that features some choice Fox personality quotes from the filing.

On Sunday, Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz addressed the issue that is hanging like a dark cloud over the network, telling viewers of his "Media Buzz" program, "I believe I should be covering it. It's a major media story given my role here at Fox, but the company has decided that as part of the organization being sued, I can't talk about it or write about it, at least for now."

Newsmax hosts on Monday condemned Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams after he posted a "racist tirade" on Twitter.

In his rant, Adams alleged Black Americans are a "hate group" and said white people should "get away" from them. Many newspapers dropped the Dilbert comic following the remarks.

In 2018, bruised by being mocked by Jimmy Kimmel nightly barbs, then-president Donald Trump pressured White House aides to see what they could do to either shut him down or get the late-night comedian to dial back the jokes.

According to a report from Rolling Stone, several former White House officials who served under Trump confirmed that the ex-president felt Kimmel was being "dishonest" when he made jokes about him.

Jennifer Little, a defense attorney for Donald Trump, said her team would declare any indictments in Georgia against the former president "faulty indictments."

Speaking to CBS correspondent Robert Costa, Little explained how Trump's team would defend the former president if any charges arise from a special grand jury's work in Georgia. She faulted the grand jury for declining to subpoena Trump and pointed to remarks made by foreperson Emily Kohrs.

Questions continue to be raised over Fox News executives allowing on-air personalities to continue to spout conspiracy rumors about the 2020 presidential election results while at the same time they were privately texting and emailing each other, acknowledging that they were helping to spread lies.

With the conservative network now looking like it will be on the losing end of a massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, conservative columnist David French suggested Fox employees threw away what little credibility they had for more than just higher ratings and power.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz revealed on Sunday that his employer had forbidden him from reporting on a lawsuit brought against the company by Dominion Voting Systems.

"Some of you have been asking why I'm not covering the Dominion voting machines lawsuit against Fox involving the unproven claims of election fraud in 2020," Kurtz explained on his Media Buzz program.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R-SC) struggled on Sunday to explain why she was different from other potential 2024 presidential candidates.

In an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo told Haley she had done an "incredible job at the U.N."

Fox News host Shannon Bream called out Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) for claiming to have an optimistic message for the country while attacking Democrats like President Joe Biden.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream noted that Scott tried to paint himself as an optimistic potential presidential candidate.