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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow AT&T helped build far-right One America News
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One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
They told us they wanted a conservative network, Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.
Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OANs revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
They told us they wanted a conservative network, Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.
Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OANs revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.
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How AT&T helped build far-right One America News (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Oct 2021
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hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)1. Damn...
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)2. For this thread
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)3. OANN calling for mass executions, brought to you by @ATT
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)4. The Lincoln Project has a great video on ATT and OAN
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)5. Krebs states on Face the Nation he will delete AT&T app