How Vaccine Companies Have Bankrolled Fox News' Anti-Vaxx Insanity

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The pharmaceutical giants responsible for the COVID-19 vaccines are some of Fox News' biggest advertisers, effectively sponsoring the network’s irresponsible anti-vaccine rhetoric.

How Vaccine Companies Have Bankrolled Fox News’ Anti-Vaxx Insanity
The pharmaceutical giants responsible for the COVID-19 vaccines have advertised their other products on Fox, effectively sponsoring the network’s anti-vaccine rhetoric.
thedailybeast.com
5:44 AM · Jul 22, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-vaccine-companies-have-bankrolled-fox-news-anti-vaxx-insanity?ref=home

With increasing regularity over the past few months, Fox News has peddled vaccine skepticism and at times outright resistance to its millions of viewers, leading critics to accuse the network of “killing people” as large swaths of conservatives refuse to get vaccinated.

And it turns out that such dangerous rhetoric has, in effect, been sponsored by the pharmaceutical giants involved in developing, manufacturing, and distributing the very vaccines that Fox News hosts and pundits have railed against on a near-daily basis.

According to research provided by liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, some of Fox’s top advertisers include Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis AG. Other top vaccine manufacturers, like Pfizer and AstraZeneca, have run hundreds of commercials on the network since the start of the year and rank among the cable network’s top 150 sponsors.

Most of the commercials were not for the drugmakers’ vaccines, but rather direct-to-consumer advertisements for their prescription or over-the-counter medications.

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