| Dear Friend, More than 150,000 people have joined our call to take Fox "News" off cable, and now former president Barack Obama is joining the call against disinformation as well. In a speech, President Obama talked about the problem with spreading disinformation, saying that it floods a “country’s public square with enough raw sewage” that “citizens no longer know what to believe.”(1) (And of course, Tucker Carlson responded by calling President Obama a “full-blown fascist.”(2)) Fox "News" is dangerous to people and our democracy, and we need to ramp up our pressure. We have helped drive more than 150,000 signatures to cable companies asking them to drop Fox News. With your help, we can help raise that number to a quarter of a million and beyond. Will you donate $5 to Courage California and help deplatform Fox "News"? It’s not just that Tucker Carlson and Fox "News" are telling lies. It’s that those lies are explicitly encouraging dangerous behavior. Carlson said that parents should “beat up” and “thrash” teachers who have raised the issue of gender in the classroom.(3) He said that people should assault mask-wearers during a pandemic.(4) And he said that the U.S. should withhold aid to Ukraine because of false allegations against its president, which would cost lives.(5) As President Obama said, “One of the biggest reasons for democracy’s weakening is the profound change that’s taken place in how we communicate and consume information.”(6) Fox "News" has proven itself to be one of the biggest purveyors of this disinformation, and it must be stopped. With your support, we can leverage social media and beyond to elevate our call to deplatform Fox "News" from Comcast, Charter, and the rest of the cable companies. We’ve done it with One American "News" and other disinformation peddlers, now let’s do it with Fox. Donate $5 now to help stop Fox "News"! Yours in the fight against disinformation, Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Mai, Mai, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) PS: Courage California is fighting for equity and justice across the state and country. Will you become a monthly donor and help sustain our work? Donations go to support all of Courage California's work for a more progressive California and country. Follow us now on Facebook or Twitter! Footnotes:  |
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