Sign the petition to demand corporations stop funding Fox's lies!
Dear MoveOn member,
Breaking: Fox "News" has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in a blockbuster lawsuit settlement over Fox News' 2020 election lies.1
This is the largest settlement in media history, signaling the beginning of a reckoning for Fox's endless stream of right-wing propaganda masquerading as news.2 But still, the settlement amounts to only about a quarter of Fox News' profits from last year alone.3 If we're going to break its stranglehold on our politics, we need to fundamentally challenge Fox News' whole business model.
Will you help defund Fox's destructive power by demanding corporate advertisers stop funding Fox's lies? The truth is that Fox News will continue spewing lies and hatred, further destroying our democracy, until they start losing profits.
The most effective way we can hold Fox News accountable for their lies is to demand that these companies stop funding the channel through any new advertising on it. With Fox's reputation on the line, this is a prime opportunity to demand that corporate advertisers change course and stop doing business with Fox.
In just a couple of weeks, these corporate advertisers will likely be striking new deals with Fox News for the next year. AT&T, General Motors, and Subway have the choice to stop future advertising deals with Fox News or to continue funding the hate and lies that undermine our democracy.
The Dominion settlement means we won't get to see Fox bigwigs like Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson take the stand under oath in the trial. By settling in the moments before starting its trial, Fox avoided an even more painful reckoning that would have seen its most prolific liars testify under oath, and possibly result in a verdict worth twice as much. What happens in courtrooms and boardrooms may not be up to us. But we can do our part to make sure that $787.5 million is the beginning and not the end of the cost that Fox pays for damaging our democracy.
MoveOn members have a long history of confronting Fox's lies and pernicious partisan impact—from forcing advertisers to drop Bill O'Reilly to getting the Democratic Party to stop hosting presidential primary debates on this right-wing network. We'll continue this work—including calling out Tucker Carlson's white-supremacism-fueled appeal—and part of it is challenging the very funding model that allows Fox to prop up this disinformation.
Thanks for all you do.
-Alexis, David, Kelsey, Tania, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Fox Dominion payout becomes largest media settlement in history," The Independent, April 19, 2023
https://act.moveon.org/go/172109?t=7&akid=350133%2E40999114%2EChLe04
2. Ibid.
3. "Fox News Will Pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 Million to Settle. What Does That Mean for Fox?" Esquire, April 18, 2023
https://act.moveon.org/go/172115?t=9&akid=350133%2E40999114%2EChLe04
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