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Carlson, Hannity among potential witnesses at Fox News trial

Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Bret Baier are among the personalities who could soon be appearing in a much different venue — court.

3 days ago

‘Unhinged’: Trump Ripped In Withering Editorial From Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post

The previously pro-Trump tabloid offered some harsh truths for Trump supporters.

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Fox, Dominion argue over legal standards to prove defamation

Lawyers for Fox News and a voting machine company are tangling over the high bar to prove defamation in a $1.6 billion lawsuit that has embarrassed the conservative network over its airing of false claims related to the 2020 presidential election.

Rupert Murdoch may have to testify in Dominion trial despite ‘hardship’ claim

Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, his son and two others could be forced to testify in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the news network.

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Rupert Murdoch is saying ‘I do’ for the fifth time: ‘I knew this would be my last’

News Corp. tycoon Rupert Murdoch proposed to former police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith on Saint Patrick's Day in NYC. It will be his fifth marriage.

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, decides to have another go at marriage

Media baron Rupert Murdoch announced his engagement to former model Anne Lesley Smith in the New York Post; it will be his fifth marriage.

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Rupert Murdoch finds love with Ann Lesley Smith as happy couple plans summer wedding

Fox Corporation chairman and News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has found love once again, and is getting married to Ann Lesley Smith.

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Maria Bartiromo isn’t done with misinformation just yet

The Fox host, under fire for her post-2020 election fraud claims, made false statements about the covid-19 vaccine Thursday.

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The Fallout of Fox News’ Public Shaming

The Dominion lawsuit has exposed instances of pandering and duplicity, but none of it is likely to change the network’s business model.

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Fox News-Dominion lawsuit: A timeline of major events and revelations

All you need to know about what happened and when in the high-stakes legal showdown.

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Rupert Murdoch appears to confirm that Kimberly Guilfoyle left Fox News due to 'inappropriate' behavior, after reports claimed she faced a sexual harassment accusation

It was reported in 2020 that Kimberly Guilfoyle was forced from Fox News after facing a sexual harassment accusation from a female assistant.

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What key players at Fox News said about the network and its viewers

The Fox News lawsuit has given the public a rare look inside the powerful media company — including what top figures thought of their own network and its viewers.

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Court records show political pressure behind Fox programming

Thousands of pages of documents in a recent lawsuit show that Fox News' top executives sometimes were actively involved in politics rather than simply reporting or offering opinions on it.

Lawsuit against Fox shows the news behind the Trump news

Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is producing plenty of behind-the-scenes news about what the network's personalities and executives thought about Donald Trump.

Dominion defamation suit argues Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch had misgivings about Fox News' coverage after 2020 election

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News, seeking $1.6 billion, accusing it of amplifying and giving a platform to false conspiracy theories about the company.

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Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims

The media executive's astonishingly candid assessments are found in thousands of pages of internal Fox documents released as part of a lawsuit by Dominion.

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Takeaways from the Fox Dominion filings

Fox was a hotbed of backbiting, and its vaunted news division wasn’t as neutral as it claimed to be

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Fox chair Murdoch says 2020 election was fair: court filings

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen.

Highlights Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show

A large cache of documents was released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting System.

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Rupert Murdoch said Fox News continued airing Mike Lindell's ads even after his voter fraud rants because of how much 'green' Lindell provided for the network: court filing

"The man is on every night. Pays us a lot of money," read a snippet from Murdoch's January deposition in a court filing released on Monday.

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Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media

Could Fox News lose a $1.6 billion lawsuit? Outside media lawyers say the network is in real legal jeopardy if the case goes to trial next month. Fox argues a loss would hurt other news outlets too.

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Fox libel defense at odds with top GOP presidential foes

A $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage of false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election isn’t the only thing putting pressure on the standard for U.S. libel law.

An update on Dominion Voting Systems

Anderson Cooper with an update on a story we reported this past October on Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

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Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different?

The media mogul acknowledged that he could have stopped the parade of conspiracy theorists on Fox News from amplifying false claims by former President Trump and his surrogates that the election in 2020 was stolen.

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Ron DeSantis loses his cool with a reporter after failing to answer a question on how his Ukraine policy would differ from Biden's

The Florida Gov., who is rumoured to have 2024 election ambitions, has criticised Joe Biden's Ukraine policy without explaining how his would differ.

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Donald Who?: Fox, the Dominion Case, and the Perils of Pivoting from Trump

Ignoring the former President doesn't seem to have sunk him yet.

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Democrats ask Fox not to push 'propaganda' on 2020 election

The two top Democrats in Congress are asking Fox News executives not to spread false information about the 2020 election and are demanding that commentators who suggested that the election was stolen acknowledge on the air that they were wrong.

Top Democrats push Fox News to stop promoting "propaganda" about 2020 election

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries want Fox News hosts to admit on air they were wrong to spread false claims about the 2020 election.

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Schumer, Jeffries demand Fox News stop promoting ‘grave propaganda’ about 2020 election

The letter comes amid reports that Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch admitted in a deposition that some Fox hosts “were endorsing” election falsehoods and that he wished the network had pushed back harder on such conspiracy theories.

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Schumer, Jeffries pressure Murdoch, Fox News over Trump's false election fraud claims

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are calling foul on Rupert Murdoch following Dominion Voting Systems' latest Fox News revelations.

cnbc.com

Rupert Murdoch is under scrutiny for his media empire. It's far from the first time

Rupert Murdoch is in the headlines again, this time because of a lawsuit over Fox News's coverage of the 2020 election. It's not the only legal battle happening right now.

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Rupert Murdoch's comments on Fox News election lies explained - The Washington Post

The high-profile defamation suit against the network won't turn on testimony like that cited from the media mogul this week.

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Rupert Murdoch’s big admission about Fox News

Murdoch admitted his hosts endorsed stolen-election claims. But how significant is that acknowledgment to Dominion's defamation lawsuit?

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The other way Rupert Murdoch tried to tip the scales for Trump

A new court filing indicates that Rupert Murdoch passed information about Biden ads to Trump's campaign.

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Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars 'endorsed' lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them

Under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation case, Murdoch says he wishes Fox News had been "stronger in denouncing" false claims of election fraud. Fox says the lawsuit threatens journalists' free speech.

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Rupert Murdoch admits some Fox News hosts endorsed false notion of 2020 election fraud

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News Network and its parent, Fox Corp., for $1.6 billion for what Dominion asserts was defamation.

cbsnews.com

Murdoch says some Fox hosts 'endorsed' false election claims

Court documents say Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed false allegations of a stolen 2020 presidential election.

Murdoch says some Fox hosts 'endorsed' false election claims

Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed the false allegations by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that he didn't step in to stop them from promoting the claims, according to excerpts of a deposition unsealed Monday. The claims and the company's handling of them are at the heart of a defamation lawsuit against the cable news giant by Dominion Voting Systems. The recently unsealed documents include excerpts from a deposition in which Murdoch was asked about whether he was aware that some of the network’s commentators — Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity — at times endorsed the false election claims.

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Rupert Murdoch says some Fox News anchors 'endorsed' false election fraud claims in Dominion case

Further revelations about Fox Corp executives were unveiled in Dominion Voting Systems court papers filed Monday.

cnbc.com

Rupert Murdoch admitted some Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ election lies

The Fox Corp chair's comments came in the latest filing from Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion.

washingtonpost.com

Fox News’s fear of Trump mirrors the GOP’s

The network's internal communications revealed in a legal filing last week mirror the dynamics within the broader conservative movement and the Republican Party. And nobody has come up with a good answer.

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Fox News execs blocked Trump from doing interview during Jan. 6 Capitol riot, filing shows

Fox News executives vetoed Trump from going on air hours after the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, court papers show

cnbc.com

Rupert Murdoch suggested Fox News hosts Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham go on air and say Joe Biden had won 2020 election, court filing says

Rupert Murdoch privately described pro-Trump election fraud claims as "damaging" and "crazy," according to a new court filing.

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Dominion voting case exposes post-election fear at Fox News

A court filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News lays bare fear at the network that it had alienated viewers and damaged its brand by not lining up with President Donald Trump's false 2020 election claims.

Fox News feared losing viewers by airing truth about election, documents show

Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and others at Fox News fretted about ratings, blow to brand after 2020 election, according to Dominion defamation lawsuit filing.

washingtonpost.com

The Real Elitists Are at Fox News

Republicans and their media enablers despise ordinary Americans.

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Fox News hosts, execs privately doubted 2020 conspiracies shared on air

Rupert Murdoch called election conspiracies "really crazy stuff," according to new legal filings in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.

washingtonpost.com

Fox News hosts, Rupert Murdoch were skeptical of Trump election fraud claims

Dominion Voting Machines pointed to evidence that Fox News anchors expressed doubts in Donald Trump's false claims of a rigged election in 2020.

cnbc.com

HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike

Striking union members at HarperCollins have approved a tentative agreement reached last week and will return to work Tuesday, ending a walkout that lasted more than three months and became the center of an ongoing debate about salaries in the industry.

HarperCollins, striking workers agree to federal mediation

HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing some 250 striking employees have agreed to enter into federal mediation, the first sign of a possible settlement since the work stoppage began in early November.

Rupert Murdoch pulls plug on possible merger of News Corp. and Fox

Media mogul withdraws proposal to reunite owner of Wall Street Journal with TV broadcaster.

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Murdoch pulls plug on possible merger of News Corp., Fox

Rupert Murdoch has pulled the plug on a proposal to merge his News Corp. and Fox Corp. In statements Tuesday, the companies said their boards received letters from Murdoch withdrawing the plan.

Rupert Murdoch withdraws bid to recombine two halves of his empire

Murdoch had hoped to merge News Corp. and Fox Corp., a decade after he split them. But shareholders, including son James, objected.

washingtonpost.com

Rupert Murdoch abandons News Corp.-Fox merger after investors push back

The 91-year-old mogul had hoped to reunite the two halves of his media empire. The move would have put Fox News and the Wall Street Journal under the same roof.

latimes.com

Rupert Murdoch calls off proposed Fox-News Corp merger

Rupert Murdoch had been exploring a reunion of Fox and News Corp about 10 years after he split the companies.

cnbc.com

Rupert Murdoch deposition in Dominion-Fox lawsuit delayed until next week

Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch's deposition in the Dominion-Fox lawsuit is now scheduled to take place next week.

cnbc.com

Twitter Jumped the Shark, Now It Looks Like MySpace

There are lessons to be learned from a faded social media site and a ’70s sitcom.

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Outrage in Britain after tabloid columnist imagined Meghan naked and shamed

The Sun withdrew the column, but the controversy continues, with Parliament and the queen consort now involved.

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Emma Tucker to replace Matt Murray as editor of the Wall Street Journal

Tucker, the editor of London’s Sunday Times, will be the Journal’s first woman as top editor. The move marks Rupert Murdoch's reassertion of control over the newspaper.

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Rupert Murdoch will be deposed in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox

Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch will face questioning next week as part of Dominion Voting's lawsuit

cnbc.com

Holmes' former partner gets nearly 13 years in Theranos case

A judge has sentenced former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company’s blood-testing hoax.

Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox

The Fox Corp chairman is the highest-profile individual to be questioned in the case, which hinges on Fox’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

washingtonpost.com

Potential News Corp, Fox reunion faces opposition from large shareholder

One of the largest shareholders in both News Corp and Fox is opposing a recombination of the companies.

cnbc.com

Elizabeth Holmes faces judgment day for her Theranos crimes

A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.

Elizabeth Holmes gets more than 11 years for Theranos scam

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley ambition that veered into deceit.

Trump bid nets tough reaction from some former media friends

Not all of his friends abandoned him.

Trump vs. DeSantis: A simmering rivalry bursts into view

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have been on a collision course from the start.

Trump faces blame from GOP as he moves forward with WH bid

Former President Donald Trump is moving forward with his planned Tuesday announcement, pressing on with a third presidential run.

Sharp attacks on Trump from Rupert Murdoch's news outlets

Former President Donald Trump has taken some hits in the aftermath of the midterm elections, perhaps none as hard as those from outlets controlled by news magnate Rupert Murdoch.

HarperCollins union begins strike, citing wages, diversity

Some 250 copy editors, marketing assistants and other employees at HarperCollins Publishers went on strike Thursday, with the two sides differing over wages and benefits, diversity policy and union protection.

Musk's partisan tweets call Twitter neutrality into question

Elon Musk used his Twitter megaphone to appeal to “independent-minded voters” on Monday, urging them to vote Republican in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, stepping into the country’s political debate that tech company executives have for years worked to stay out of so their platforms wouldn’t be seen as favoring one side over the other.

Biden: IBM investment to help in tech competition with China

President Joe Biden says a $20 billion investment by IBM in New York’s Hudson River Valley will help give the United States a technological edge against China.

Rupert Murdoch's son sues Australian website for defamation

Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch is suing Australian news website Crikey in a Sydney court for defamation over an opinion piece about last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch reach agreement on divorce

Model and actor Jerry Hall and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce.

Trump v. DeSantis: Young conservatives debate GOP's future

Former President Donald Trump received a rock star’s welcome at a gathering of young conservative activists in Florida this weekend as he continued to tease another presidential run.

Jury takes fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes's ex-partner

The fate of hard-nosed technology executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani is now in the hands of a jury that will weigh criminal charges alleging he joined disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, his former partner, in an elaborate fraud that jarred Silicon Valley.

Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play 'The 47th'

A play that offers an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics is running at London's Old Vic theater.

Opening day: CNN+ streaming service ready for launch Tuesday

After millions of dollars in spending and hundreds of new hires, CNN is ready to launch its CNN+ streaming service on Tuesday.

Fox News host Shannon Bream has new book out in March

The author of the bestselling “The Women of the Bible Speak” has a followup book coming out this spring.

Will Elizabeth Holmes' conviction sober up Silicon Valley?

The fraud conviction of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could do more than just send a once-celebrated billionaire to prison for years.

Former Theranos CEO Holmes convicted of fraud and conspiracy

Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of duping investors into believing her startup Theranos had developed a revolutionary medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood.

What's next for Ghislaine Maxwell after guilty verdict?

With a guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what the once high-flying Jeffrey Epstein confidante was accused of and what’s next for her.

Maxwell verdict bodes ill for Prince Andrew's civil case

Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

Jury in Elizabeth Holmes trial hears replay of her boasts

Jurors in the fraud trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes returned to the courtroom Thursday to listen to a replay of audio recordings that captured her brash promises about a vaunted blood-testing technology the propelled her meteoric rise and scandalous downfall.

Jurors begin to weigh evidence in Elizabeth Holmes' case

The jurors now responsible for assessing 11 charges of fraud and conspiracy against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes are scheduled to begin their first full day of deliberations Monday.

Elizabeth Holmes' fraud case heads to the jury

The jury that will weigh 11 charges of fraud and conspiracy against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes finally got the case late Friday after a three-month trial that captivated Silicon Valley.

Sienna Miller settles phone hacking claim against tabloid

Actor Sienna Miller has accepted “substantial” damages from the publisher of British tabloid newspaper The Sun which she accuses of hacking her phone and leaking news of her pregnancy.

What Elizabeth Holmes had to say at her trial: 5 takeaways

Once-lionized entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes wrapped up seven days of testimony Wednesday in her criminal fraud trial, defending her actions as CEO of the startup Theranos.

Who is the real Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein enabler or pawn?

Ghislaine Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father, a rags-to-riches billionaire who looted his companies' pension funds.

Elizabeth Holmes takes the stand in her criminal fraud trial

Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, accused of bamboozling investors and patients about her startup Theranos and its medical device that she said would reshape health care, unexpectedly took the witness stand Friday in her trial for criminal fraud.

Jury gets chance to hear Elizabeth Holmes' bold promises

A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology.

Fox News launching its own mobile-friendly weather service

Fox News Media is entering another rough-and-tumble world — the weather.

Theranos CEO wooed investors while lab director saw trouble

Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes convinced media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other billionaires to invest in her biotechnology startup despite warnings its unconventional blood tests were dangerously unreliable.

Former US defense secretary testifies in Holmes fraud trial

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testified Wednesday in the trial of fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes, saying the entrepreneur misled him into believing she was on the verge of rolling out a blood-testing breakthrough that he hoped would help save lives of troops in battle.

Piers Morgan to launch new TV show in deal with News Corp

British presenter Piers Morgan will join News Corp and Fox News Media and host a TV show that will air in the U.S., Britain and Australia.

Elizabeth Holmes' trial to dissect downfall of a tech star

Elizabeth Holmes once seemed destined to fulfill her dream of becoming Silicon Valley's next superstar.

Fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes prepares to go on trial

A jury is being assembled to decide the fate of Elizabeth Holmes, a former Silicon Valley star facing felony charges of duping her elite financial backers and a high-powered board of directors into believing she had invented a revolutionary blood-testing technology that could detect hundreds of diseases with a finger prick.

Singer Keating accepts damages in tabloid phone hacking case

Irish singer Ronan Keating has accepted “substantial damages” from a British tabloid newspaper publisher over phone hacking.

Conservative media offers mixed messages on COVID-19 vaccine

Skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccination is a common theme in media appealing to conservatives, despite assurances from doctors and scientists that the vaccine is safe and effective.

ProPublica: Many of the uber-rich pay next to no income tax

The richest 25 Americans pay less in tax — 15.8% of adjusted gross income — than many ordinary workers do, once you include taxes for Social Security and Medicare, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica found.

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