Three former Fox executives expressed remorse for the network, which they called a “disinformation machine.”
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Three former Fox executives released a joint statement on Wednesday expressing disappointment and remorse for helping to build a corporation that they say has become a major “disinformation machine.”. This was reported by the news portal The Hill.
The former executives, identified as Preston Padden, Ken Solomon and Bill Reyner, released a joint statement titled “How our efforts to bring the competition to television helped create the Fox Disinformation Machine” (“How Our Efforts to Bring Competition To Television Unknowingly Helped Create the Fox Disinformation Machine”, en inglés).
In the statement, Padden, Solomon and Reyner recounted how they helped build Fox at a time when the largest television networks were ABC, CBS and NBC, and expressed their admiration for Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox News, for “his admirable vision and efforts.” “We genuinely believed that the creation of a fourth competitive force in television was in the public interest,” the trio of former executives said.
Both Padden and Solomon and Reyner questioned, in the statement, Fox’s agreement with Dominion Voting Systems, a company that makes voting devices and programs in the United States and Canada. In this settlement, Fox News agreed to pay $787 million for carrying out news coverage of former US President Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims in 2020.. These claims were false, as Trump’s assertions could never be verified.
“We never consciously devised or established the disinformation machine that Fox became (…) The judge in the Dominion case reviewed that Fox repeatedly published false news. Fox did not appeal the decision, but instead paid nearly $800 million in damages to Dominion,” they recalled.
The former executives warned that the Fox News channel “had many negative impacts on society,” and that the worst was promoting “Trump’s Big Lie” about alleged fraud in the 2020 election. Thus, Fox News , in the opinion of the former executives, “contributed to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, which undermined our democracy.”
In April of this year, Fox News accepted, in court, that “certain claims about Dominion” published were “false.”
“We acknowledge the court rulings that found that certain claims about Dominion are false“Fox News said in a statement. “This agreement reflects Fox’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”
Dominion Voting Systems had originally sued Fox News for $1.6 billion.
Faced with the agreement, the television station expressed its desire to help the United States move forward.
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2023-07-14 02:02:00
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