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Monday, January 11th, 2021

Fox News’ validation of the insurrectionist mob makes it more likely it will strike again

Author:     Matt Gertz
Source:     Media Matters
Publication Date:     01/07/21 11:19 AM EST
 Link: Fox News’ validation of the insurrectionist mob makes it more likely it will strike again
Stephan:   One of my main takeaways from the insurrection and, indeed the last four years, is that something must be done about the disinformation and propaganda operations that have taken over the public forum. Facebook has now banned Trump for life, but why wasn't this done years ago?  The answer, of course, is that in hours Trump will cease to have the power to harm these corporate interests, whereas previously he could have. I don't think for a minute that this is the end of Trumper terrorism for the reasons this article lays out. That is one of the reasons that accountability is so imporant.

“If you don’t bother to pause and learn a single thing from it, from your citizens storming your Capitol building, then you’re a fool,” Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson said Wednesday night. 

While his comments were a typical bad-faith jab at elites, he’s absolutely right. But there’s been no soul-searching on his network after violent insurrectionists tried to prevent the U.S. Congress from confirming President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump, no on-air consideration of the role Carlson and his colleagues played in inciting that mob.

The pro-Trump insurrectionists, egged on by the president, invaded the Capitol because they had been lied to. Trump, his congressional allies, and his propagandists at Fox and elsewhere had all spent weeks whipping them up with conspiracy theories about massive election fraud that had “rigged” the election in favor of Biden and stolen it from Trump. They bear responsibility for the horrific, lethal results.

Instead, Fox’s most prominent personalities spent Wednesday night and […]

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