New York | Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan, cannot avoid testifying at trial if they are subpoenaed by Dominion Voting Systems in the company’s $US1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) defamation suit over Fox News’s airing of false claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election, a judge said.

“If Dominion wants to bring them live, they need to do a trial subpoena and I would not quash it and I would compel them to come,” Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) in a public hearing. “I know it’s difficult; I know they have very large loads and other focuses, but maybe we can work on trying to push the least amount of inconvenience on them as possible.”

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