Social media behemoths that largely refused to clamp down on viral conspiracy theories and hate speech during the Trump era, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are also complicit.
But since before the Republican primary, Fox News has arguably been the most high-profile pro-Trump provocateur, next to the president himself. Its high-powered spotlight contributed to the dissolution of the nonprofit organization in the U. Once Trump took office, the last guardrails of truth seemed to lift, and Fox News — no stranger to the benefits of deregulation — jumped right in to defend and parrot the president, or at least to let his lies go unchallenged.
Almost as often, the process appeared to work in reverse: In the earliest days of his term, Trump caused an international incident after citing a fictitious terror attack in Sweden. His source? Special Counsel Robert Mueller became the new target, as did top levels of American law enforcement. Company Town. Fox News launches new opinion show with Bartiromo, Gowdy and Pavlich among the hosts.
When newly emboldened white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Va. Hefty penalties awarded to other channels, such as RT, have effectively communicated the consequences of slipping up to media executives, said Trevor Barnes, a TV and radio compliance consultant and former Ofcom official.
The United States, meanwhile, doesn't have these kinds of rules — and hasn't since the Reagan era, when the Federal Communications Commission stopped enforcing the so-called Fairness Doctrine for TV and radio stations.
Historians believe the demise of this rule, which required broadcasters to present a variety of views on issues of public importance, paved the way for the explosion of conservative talk radio in the late s and s, which later served as a model for Fox. Those talk radio shows continue to be popular today. As a cable network, Fox News wouldn't have been bound by the doctrine, which only applied to broadcast channels.
Now, even members of the Murdoch family are reckoning with the role Fox News has played. James Murdoch, who made a dramatic break from his family last year when he resigned from the board of News Corp, said in a statement on Friday that "spreading disinformation" has "real world consequences. We hope the awful scenes we have all been seeing will finally convince those enablers to repudiate the toxic politics they have promoted once and forever," James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn Murdoch, said in a joint statement to the Financial Times.
New networks may test the system. The United Kingdom has largely watched the Capitol riot and its aftermath in horror. But two outlets expected to debut shortly in the United Kingdom could test the bounds of the regulatory system, including Ofcom's appetite for enforcement. Details haven't been announced. Critics fear the News UK TV venture and GB News could move to take on the BBC and fill a perceived gap in right-wing broadcasting, sparking concerns about whether UK regulators are up to the task of maintaining due impartiality, or whether Britain could soon have its own Fox News-type problem.
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