Fox News reportedly rejected a television advert from a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that highlighted recently uncovered reactions from the network’s top stars and executives to Donald Trump’s bogus election fraud claims and conspiracy theories surrounding a voting machine company that is suing the network for defamation.
The ad from MoveOn addresses viewers directly while quoting from text messages and emails uncovered in the lawsuit, which revealed how network personalities and Rupert Murdoch shared their behind-the-scenes irritation with false claims while the network continued to amplify them.
“Texts show they lied to you about the 2020 election for profit,” the ad says.
Those texts are then superimposed over images of some of the people who sent them, including Mr Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
“Fox News lies to its viewers every single day, and the bombshell reporting of the Dominion lawsuit is the latest proof of that,” MoveOn civic action executive director Rahna Epting said in a statement to The Independent.
The network is “nothing more than a political propaganda machine that platforms conspiracy theories and outright lies,” she added. “They knew their broadcasts about the 2020 election ‘Big Lie’ were just that – a big lie. Since Fox News continues to avoid coverage of this expose and refuses to run our ad, we’re releasing this to the public to ensure the truth about Fox News gets heard by more audiences,...
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