3. What Fox News really thought
Millions of people believe Republican former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. That support is keeping him in the running for the GOP nomination and the White House in 2024. Millions don't believe him, though – and that group includes Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and several of the company's right-wing cable hosts. Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox for $1.6 billion in a defmation suit, released reams of communications and documents Thursday showing that Murdoch called such claims "really crazy stuff" and Tucker Carlson dismissed them as lies. Dominion accuses Fox News and Fox Business of spreading election falsehoods even as executives and anchors knew better. Fox rejects Dominion's claims and calls the situation a matter of constitutionally protected free speech. The two sides are set to go to trial in April.
4. Tesla recalls over 360,000 vehicles
Tesla is under a harsh new spotlight. Elon Musk's EV company is voluntarily recalling 362,758 vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta, an experimental driver-assistance software, over its potential to cause crashes. The company will do an over-the-air software update to address the problem. Tesla hadn't revealed an exact number of cars with FSD, although Musk previously said it was about 400,000. While Musk and Tesla's supporters are objecting to the term "recall," a recall notice went out nonetheless. According to a safety recall report on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website, the software could make Teslas "act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution."
5. Ukraine is top of mind as leaders meet
Several of the world's leaders will meet this weekend at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Ukraine's war against Russian invaders will be the primary topic, as the conflict approaches its first anniversary. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was slated to open the meeting via video call. Vice President Kamala Harris, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, among others, are also attending. Russia, however, is banned. Follow live war updates.
— CNBC's Mike Calia wrote this newsletter. Hakyung Kim, Kif Leswing, Lillian Rizzo, Lora Kolodny and Natasha Turak contributed.
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