Faux News? senior Fox News figures knew after 2020 election voter fraud claims were false

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Fox is an Ethical news outlet

Fox is primarily porpaganda and opinon

most major media are more interested in proift than informing us

there are still many reputable news outlets, I will name some below

news as it was once known is dead or dying.

I think the reporting workd is still doing its job

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Fox and its producers and performers were lying as part of their business model.

Fox News’s repetition of Donald Trump’s lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud, including claims about Dominion voting machines.
the filing “establishes that Fox was not only reckless” but also that producers, owners and personalities were “deliberately lying and knew they were lying about the nature of Dominion’s machines and the supposed way they could be manipulated

Filed last week, the 192-page court review document makes it clear that senior figures at Fox News from[i] Rupert Murdoch down knew immediately after the election that claims of voter fraud, in particular those aimed at Dominion, were false.[/i]

about the dominion story :
Tucker Carlson : “ludicrous” and “off the rails”

Sean Hannity texted about “F’ing lunatics”

You’re allowed to be biased … you’re allowed to try to make money. And people should be able to disagree with each other in a newsroom. But if Fox anchors say they don’t believe X and then turn around and endorse X on air after expressing manifest disbelief in it, they have a real problem

but will this make any difference to the loyal Faux news Watchers?

stay tuned for further developments

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

When you believe in a conspiracy, all contrary evidence just entrenches their beliefs.

Of course the election wasn't rigged. No amount of proof will convince them to the contrary.

Ynotisay · M

@CountScrofula You nailed it. It has nothing to do with truth. Or even the issue. It speaks to something deeper than that. It's the same strategy used by despots and cult leaders throughout history. And even though we know the outcomes from that it does nothing to slow the "believers" down. It makes them more committed. I think it's the biggest mind fuck in our nation's history. And it's SO simple. That's what's hard to take.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Ynotisay One of the most interesting quotes I ever heard was in relation to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is a notorious and well-known fabrication by the Russian secret police around the turn of the century.

The Nazis widely distributed it and someone said

"Yes we know it's a fabrication, but its also true."

That underlines so much of the political insanity we're dealing with now. Evidence is meaningless. You just KNOW it is true and anything that furthers the narrative of that truth, whether or not its "real", is irrelevant because it means people still know the truth.

Ynotisay · M

@CountScrofula There you go. I'd say "alternative facts" falls under that banner too. So does Trump's definition of "fake news." It's all so BLATANTLY obvious and I think it blindsided a lot of people. Not sure many knew just how EASY it would be to convince people that the sky is actually green. Don't believe what you see. Believe what I say. Hell, hundreds of thousands of people DIED because they were convinced that Covid was a "hoax" intended to control people. It's mind numbing and does NOT bode well for the future.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Ynotisay Yeah I think it is fair to say that the future is completely fucked. Distant future, who knows. Next couple decades? It will only get worse.

Even if there's some sort of powerful wonderulf struggle to create a newer better world, that struggle will be bloody, violent, and take a very long time.

Ynotisay · M

@CountScrofula I might be a little more optimistic, just a little, but there's little question that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to misinformation. And that's not a uniquely American issue. We're just more predisposed to whining and blaming than other nations. So "we're" primed for it.