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Fox News apologized for fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry in an article on its website during the 2004 presidential campaign, [308] stating that the piece was a joke which accidentally appeared on the website. [309] Fox News aired a segment celebrating a 14-year-old transgender boy in California. Several conservative commentators ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Investigations conducted in 2017 showed nearly 40 percent of content by far-right Facebook pages and 19 percent of far-left pages were false or misleading. [87] In the 10 months leading up to the 2016 presidential election , 20 fake news articles shared on Facebook dramatically increased from 3 million shares, reactions, and comments to nearly ...
A federal judge tossed a defamation lawsuit brought by an Arizona man against Fox News, accusing the right-wing network and former primetime host Tucker Carlson of spreading false narratives about ...
The progressive Media Matters said in a study published this week that Fox News has leveled at least 200 attacks on Merchan alone since the trial commenced — a staggering number that does not ...
According to former Fox News producer Charlie Reina, unlike the AP, CBS News, or ABC News, Fox News's editorial policy is set from the top down in the form of a daily memo: "[F]requently, Reina says, it also contains hints, suggestions and directives on how to slant the day's news—invariably, he said in 2003, in a way that was consistent with ...
"Fox News and the planetary system of right-wing news sites that would orbit it and, later, Breitbart, were particularly adept at weaponizing such arguments and exploiting the increasingly partisan fervor animating the Republican base: They accused the media establishment of 'liberal bias', and substituted their own right-wing views as 'fair ...
Fox) was a U.S. defamation lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Channel and its corporate parent Fox Corporation. Dominion's complaint sought US$1.6 billion in damages , alleging several Fox programs had broadcast false statements that Dominion's voting machines had been rigged to steal the 2020 United States ...