How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric

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kevin_thibedeau · 2025-01 · Criticism

You left out how conservative media was adamant that it was a politically motivated hoax and ensured their faithful were kept in the dark about the looming threat. [VIDEO]

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kevin_thibedeau · 2024-04 · Criticism

While there's plenty of blame to go around for the government's disinformation campaign, never forget that the entire cast of FauxNews personalities were decrying the initial cautionary stance as a politically motivated hoax and then turned around and changed their tune when it didn't turnout to be a dud like SARS 1.0. [VIDEO]

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ihumanable · 2020-06 · Criticism

Here's Fox News photoshopping coverage about CHAZ, they have had to issue an apology over it [LINK] Someone had to open the images in photoshop, alter them, and then upload them to a website. This isn't a simple lie of omission or a mistake, this is manufactured content to push a right-wing narrative. Fox News consistently pushed the right-wing line that Coronavirus is a hoax until they were threatened with a lawsuit [VIDEO] While they were publicly telling their viewers that the virus was a hoax, internally they were implementing remote work and disease control. Here's a giant list of the ways they've supported conservative political goals while actively working against the left, with citations and source material in the footnotes [LINK]

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