Fox Shuffles Its Board Some More; Director Who Urged Company “To Take A Stance” After Jan. 6 Not Running, A Former Prime Minister Of Australia Is
deadline.comFox, which just announced that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman, unveiled a few more changes to its board of directors today.
An SEC filing listing the slate up for election at its November annual meeting showed Anne Dias and Jacques Nasser are not running again.
They have both served since Fox became a standalone public company in 2019. Dias’s name popped up in the flood of discovery material that was made public earlier this year, as Fox faced a defamation trial in a lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
Among the revelations was that five days after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Dias advised that “considering how important Fox News has been as a megaphone for Donald Trump, directly or indirectly, I believe the time has come for Fox News or you, Lachlan, to take a stance.
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