Murdoch has been chairman until now together with his son Lachlan Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch92, resigns as chairman of the board of Fox media corporation and News Corp, CNN reports.
Murdoch has been chairman until now together with his son of Lachlan Murdoch with, who now becomes the sole chairman of both companies.
Murdoch admitted in his testimony in February that Fox News spread the ex-president Donald Trump’s election lies during the 2020 presidential election. He admitted that he did not prevent Rudy Giuliani and by Sidney Powell appearances on television. Powell and Giuliani were prominent figures of Trump’s legal team on Fox News programs after the election.
Australian-born American Murdoch is one of the world’s most influential media moguls. His company News Corp owns hundreds of different media in different parts of the world, such as The Sun and The Times in Great Britain and The Wall Street Journalin and TV channel Fox News in the United States.
Murdoch started his newspaper business back in the 1950s, and in 1985 he bought the movie giant 20th Century Fox. The following year, he bought several American television stations and founded the television company Fox.