LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of people are demonstrating outside Fox Studios in Los Angeles, where News Corp. is holding its annual shareholders meeting.

At the meeting Friday, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is facing shareholders with small stakes in his company for the first time since a phone-hacking scandal broke in July. British lawmaker Tom Watson plans to use the event to reveal new details of what he claims are covert surveillance techniques by company employees.

Outside, some demonstrators carried anti-Murdoch signs, including one that stated “Fire the Murdoch Mafia.”

The media conglomerate has been rocked by evidence that its now-shuttered British tabloid, News of the World, hired a private investigator who tapped into the cellphone voicemail of a 13-year-old who disappeared in 2002 and was later found murdered.

Source: Associated Press