In the days and weeks after the 2020 elections, the Fox News Channel repeatedly broadcast false claims that then-President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory.

 

Off the air, the network's stars, producers and executives expressed contempt for those same conspiracies, calling them "mind-blowingly nuts," "totally off the rails" and "completely bs" - often in far earthier terms.

 

The network's top primetime stars - Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity - texted contemptuously of the claims in group chats, but also denounced colleagues pointing that out publicly or on television.

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020

 

 

 

Seems they are themselves also responsible for the January 6th insurrection as far as baiting people into believing the Big Lie.

It seems like an open secret.  Everyone knew that Trump's election fraud claim was a lie.  Everyone at Fox News knew.  Even Trump himself knew.  Well, everyone except the MAGA herd.

 

Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Trump’s election fraud claims, court document reveals

 

The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a Thursday court filing revealed.

 

The messages, included in a legal filing as part of Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp asserting that the election was rigged.

 

In one set of messages revealed in the court filing, Carlson texted Ingraham, saying that Sidney Powell, an attorney who was representing the Trump campaign, was “lying” and that he had “caught her” doing so, Ingraham responded, “Sidney is a complete nut, no one will work with her, ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].”

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/media/fox-news-stars-executives-court-documents/index.html

 

oooops, Fox News, what a unique damaging role it plays in the US media peddling lies

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

oooops, Fox News, what a unique damaging role it plays in the US media peddling lies

And they used to claim they were "Fair and Balanced"

 

The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/media/fox-news-fair-and-balanced.html
Fox News Drops 'Fair and Balanced' Motto

 

 

How about a FoxNews slogan of:  "We Rant, You Believe"