Dear Friend,

Dan Bongino had nearly one million YouTube followers when the platform
permanently banned him last month for spreading COVID-19
disinformation.(1)

But Bongino still has his own show on Fox News. So does Tucker Carlson,
who incited his viewers to physically assault anyone trying to enforce
mask wearing.(2) So does Jeanine Pirro, who told her viewers that the
White House was using its vaccine initiative to confiscate guns.(3)

Cable companies have a responsibility to stop Fox News from spreading
misinformation that is a danger to public health. That’s why Courage
California has joined former labor secretary Robert Reich, as well as
Democracy for America and other progressive groups, to call on Comcast,
Charter, and every other cable company to take Fox News off the air.

[ [link removed]- ]Click here to sign our petition and stop Fox News’ disinformation!

An upsetting 57% of Fox News coverage about the coronavirus vaccine has
included claims that undermined the importance or efficacy of
immunization.(4)

New polling shows that Fox News has the same level of trust from its
viewers as NPR has from its listeners, making its impact devastating.(5)

And it’s not just COVID-19 disinformation that’s a problem. An outrageous
82% of Fox News viewers believe the Big Lie, that the election was stolen
from Donald Trump, which helped foment the January 6 attack on the Capitol
and a wave of voter suppression bills throughout the country.(6)

This is a campaign we can win, with enough grassroots energy, because
we've done it before. Progressive groups and leaders successfully
pressured YouTube to kick Dan Bongino off its platform, Facebook to
permanently ban Alex Jones and his InfoWars show, Twitter to permanently
suspend Trump, and DirecTV to drop One America Network.

Cable news networks are losing customers by the day, and we can leverage
this moment to stop them from airing Fox News. [ [link removed]- ]Click here to sign our
petition to stop Fox News now!

Yours in the fight against disinformation,

Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay,
LisaMarie, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) 

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