Most people in the USA in August 2026 are opposed to U.S. Dictator Trump’s post-January 20, 2025 foreign policy of seeking regime change in Iran by ordering U.S. military forces to join the IDF in launching a war of military aggression against people in Iran and to attempt to impose a naval blockade of Iran–in violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, the Nuremberg Accords and the U.S. Constitution.

Yet in August 2026, the politically right-wing extremist Fox News TV and Digital subsidiary of the Fox Corporation still seems to be attempting to use the airwaves of the network of stations the Fox Corporation owns and operates, or is affiliated with, to manipulate U.S. working-class people and U.S. middle-class people into not opposing U.S. Dictator Trump’s post-January 20, 2025 foreign policy decisions.

So perhaps August 2026 might be a good time for ZNet’s revolutionary socialist and anti-imperialist readers to again examine who has owned the Fox Corporation and who has sat on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors in recent years?

According to the Harvard University Future of Media Project website’s “Index of Mainstream Media Ownership,” in recent years the Murdoch family off Billionaire Australian Migrant Rupert Murdoch (whose son attended a private school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, the Trinity School, during the 1980s, when Rupert Murdoch also then sat on the Trinity School’s board of trustees) owned 39 percent of Fox Corporation stock, the Vanguard Group Inc. owned 13 percent of Fox Corporation stock, Independent Franchise Partners owned over 7 percent of Fox Corporation stock, the Yactman Asset Management LP owned over 5 percent of Fox Corporation stock and BlackRock Fund Advisors owned nearly 5 percent of Fox Corporation stock.

And, according to the Future of Media Project website’s “Index of Mainstream Media Ownership”, the Fox Corporation “has 28 owned-and-operated stations, and 43 Fox affiliates under Nexstar and 59 Fox affiliates with” the Sinclair media firm, in recent years.

In addition, the website of the Fox Corporation, which controls the right-wing extremist Fox News network, indicated that, in recent years, the following 7 people have been sitting on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors: Paul D. Ryan; Margaret “Peggy” L. Johnson; Roland A. Hernandez; Chase Carey; William A. Burck; Tony Abbott AC; and Lachlan K. Murdoch.

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director Paul Ryan “was appointed to the Fox Corporation Board of Directors in March 2019,” is “a general partner of the private equity firm Solamere Capital LLC,” and is “Vice Chairman of Teneo Strategy LLC and also serves on the Advisory Boards of Robert Bosch Gmbh and Paradigm Operation L.P. and the Boards of Directors of Xactas (formerly Universal CIS) and SHINE Medical Technologies.” In addition, Fox Corporation Director Ryan “has been a Professor of the Practice, Political Science and Economics, at the University of Notre Dame since 2019” and “previously served as the…Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives” from October 2015 to January 2019.

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director Margaret “Peggy” L. Johnson “was elected as a Director of Fox Corporation in November 2023” and “has served on the Board of Directors of BlackRock, Inc. since 2018 and served on the Board of Directors of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. from 2013 to 2018.

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director Roland A. Hernandez “was appointed to the Fox Corporation Board of Directors in March 2019” and “is the Founding Principal and CEO of Hernandez Media Ventures, a company engaged in the acquisition and management of media assets.” In addition, Fox Corporation Director Hernandez “serves on the boards of directors of U.S. Bancorp and Take-two Interactive Software, Inc.,” is “on the advisory board of Harvard Law School” and “previously served on the boards of directors of Belmont Ltd., MGM Resorts International, The Ryland Group, Inc., Sony Corporation, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Walmart Stores, Inc..”

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director Chase Carey “was appointed to the Fox Corporation board of Directors in March 2019,” was “Chairman of Formula 1” from 2016 to 2022, “served as a Director of Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. from 2016 to 2019” and is “also a Trustee Emeritus at Colgate University.”

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director William A. Burck “was appointed to the Fox Corporation Board of Directors in June 2021” and is “the Global Co-Managing Partner of the law firm Quinn, Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.” In addition, Fox Corporation Director Burck “served as Deputy Staff Secretary, Special Counsel and Deputy White House Counsel to President George W. Bush” from 2005 to 2009.

According to the Fox Corporation website, Fox Corporation Director Tony Abbott AC “was elected as a Director of Fox Corporation in November 2023” and was the “Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015.”

And finally, according to the Fox Corporation website, Billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s son and Fox Corporation Director, Lachlan K. Murdoch, is “the Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Corporation” and also “serves as the Chair of News Corp. and Executive Chairman of NOVA Entertainment, an Australian media company.”

According to the same website, Billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s son “founded Illyria Pty,” a “private investment company” in 2005 and, in 2009 “Illyria acquired 50 percent of DMG Radio, a network of radio stations, which later was renamed NOVA Entertainment;” and in 2012, after  “Illyria purchased the remaining 50 percent” of DMG Radio, “NOVA  Entertainment became Australia’s leading network of FM stations.”

Yet in the USA in August 2026, the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] is still allowing the family of the Executive Chairman of a media company which owns Australia’s leading network of FM stations to also own 39 percent of the stock of a media corporation in the USA, the Fox Corporation, that owns and operates at least 28 right-wing extremist U.S. television stations?

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