New court documents show that Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch admitted under oath that prominent Fox hosts knowingly spread false information and narratives about election fraud in 2020 -- and that he had the power to stop it, and didn’t.
Murdoch also admitted that he colluded with Jared Kushner to provide the Trump campaign with confidential information about Biden campaign ads and debate strategy.
Fox knowingly lied to its millions of viewers, and it continues to spread false conspiracies that have already led to violence. Fox is not a news network -- it’s a propaganda arm of the far-right.
Fox should be held accountable, under the law and by their peers in actual news organizations. That’s why we’re calling on the White House Correspondents’ Association to remove Fox from the press pool.
Being part of the press pool means that for many events, every other outlet is reliant on Fox because they have the only reporter or camera in the room where news is being made. That should no longer be true.
The new court documents show that Murdoch, some of Fox’s biggest media stars, and many top executives knew Biden won the election -- but they continued to lie to millions of viewers anyway.
According to data collected by Media Matters, in the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox questioned the results or pushed conspiracy theories about it nearly 800 times.
When asked if he could have stopped Fox News from putting on the air Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and others promoting the Big Lie, Murdoch said under oath “I could have. But I did not.”
Every day that the White House Correspondents’ Association allows Fox to participate in the White House press pool, they give legitimacy to a propaganda outlet -- and are complicit in Fox misinforming millions of people.
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-- The PCCC Team (@BoldProgressive)
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