Schumer, Jeffries call on Fox News to stop spreading election lies

• The Democratic leaders also demand in the letter that Murdoch direct his Fox News hosts to "admit on the air that they were wrong to engage in such negligent behavior."

What they're saying: "The leadership of your company was aware of the dangers of broadcasting these outlandish claims," Schumer and Jeffries wrote.

• "By your own account, Donald Trump's election lies were 'damaging' and 'really crazy stuff,'" the letter stated.
• "Despite that shocking admission, Fox News hosts have continued to peddle election denialism to the American people."
• "This sets a dangerous precedent that ignores basic journalistic fact-checking principles and public accountability," the leaders said.

State of play: Murdoch said in a now unsealed deposition that he regrets the decision to allow Fox News personalities to push election falsehoods.

• "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he said.

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