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Fox News Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Their Cornavirus Lies
BY Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/04/fox-news-is-preparing-for-lawsuits-over-their-cornavirus-lies.html
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The Murdochs are lawyering up and preparing for a wave of lawsuits based on the lies, misinformation, and conspiracy theories that Fox News spread about the coronavirus.
According to The Daily Beast:
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories dispensed by certain Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network personalities such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Trish Regan.
According to a top Murdoch executive, the father-and-son media moguls are ready to go to war with potential plaintiffs such as the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethicsaka WASHLITEan activist non-profit that filed suit on Thursday against Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, and other defendants.
For example, Fox News told its viewers that Trump would not allow the coronavirus to reach the United States:
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comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)have some effect on their desire to push unscientific nonsense and conspiracy theories.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Dream on, I know, but still.