Fox Corp. wants documents from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman regarding his funding of a defamation case against the media company.
Hoffman revealed last July that he funded voting technology company Smartmatic USA Corp.'s $2.7 billion defamation case against Fox over a conspiracy theory that the company rigged the 2020 US presidential election. Fox says it learned that Hoffman funded the plaintiffs with $25 million to support the lawsuit.
On Jan. 29, Fox filed a petition in California Superior Court to compel discovery against Hoffman. Fox says he and his aide Dmitri Mehlhorn objected to subpoenas in December. ...
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