The perils of unfettered Fox News propaganda -- Sabrina Haake [View all]

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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-unfettered-fox-news

If England can require accuracy in the media, why can't the U.S.?

In 2021, following MAGA’s J6 storming of the US capital, media columnist Margaret Sullivan observed that such orchestrated violence could not have happened without Fox News. She wrote, “The mob that stormed and desecrated the Capitol … could not have existed in a country that hadn’t been radicalized by the likes of [Fox News hosts] Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, and swayed by biased news coverage.”

Fox News didn’t deny that it platformed Trump’s stolen election claims after knowing them to be false, nor could it, after Dominion Voting brought the receipts. In the run up to J6, Fox anchors laughed to each other that Trump’s and his supporters’ election claims were “Ludicrous” and “totally off the rails”(Tucker Carlson); “F’ing lunatics” (Sean Hannity); “Nuts” (Dana Perino); “Complete BS” (Fox Producer); “Kooky” (Maria Bartiromo); “Mind Blowingly Nuts” (Fox VP); and that, “There is NO evidence of fraud. None” (Bret Baier).

And yet, to the American people, Fox hosts said the opposite, relentlessly, and kept at it until the manufactured outrage crescendoed in the J6 attack.

Fox is normalizing Trump’s police state

In 2025, Fox is at it again, this time parroting Trump’s false claims about immigrants, crime, and ICE. As Trump’s masked agents commit widely documented atrocities in democrat-run cities, Fox hosts call ICE protestors “domestic terrorists,” while platforming false claims that ICE officers have “federal immunity“ for their crimes.

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