Update (1/3/25): This article has been updated with additional examples.After a truck-ramming attack killed at least 14 people at a New Year's celebration in New Orleans, Fox News misreported that the vehicle used came across the southern border two days earlier, implying that the suspected perpetrator — later identified as an Army veteran born in the U.S. — had also crossed the border. Although the network has seemingly attempted to quietly walk back the false information, Fox personalities and guests — including some former and incoming Trump administration picks — have continued to baselessly connect an act of terror reportedly committed by a U.S. citizen to the southern border in order to fearmonger about terrorists entering the country.

After a truck-ramming attack killed at least 14 people at a New Year’s celebration in New Orleans, Fox News misreported that the vehicle used came across the southern border two days earlier, implying that the suspected perpetrator — later identified as an Army veteran born in the U.S. — had also crossed the border.

Although the network has seemingly attempted to quietly walk back the false information, Fox personalities and guests — including some former and incoming Trump administration picks — have continued to baselessly connect an act of terror reportedly committed by a U.S. citizen to the southern border in order to fearmonger about terrorists entering the country. […]

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  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    That’s how it works. They throw something out there, let it stew for awhile, then quietly retract.

    I was watching a Carlson clip where he’s interviewing a sheriff on the Texas border. This guy claims the feds give every illegal a $1,000 Visa card when they cross. I’m screaming bullshit, that would be a monster scandal and we’d all hear about it.

    Carlson lets the guy ramble on for awhile, let’s the idea sink in for the viewer, then asks him to come back to the Visa thing.

    “(mumble, mumble) Oh, it’s just something I heard about.”

    And Carlson is completely satisfied with that answer!

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    52·
    4 days ago

    Why do we need articles about what fox News is doing. No one outside of there gives a fuck and everyone inside of there already knows whatever propaganda they are selling and won’t change their mind. Just leave the crazies to their brain rot and stop exposing the rest of us to it.

    • GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 days ago

      I think the issue is the uninformed/unengaged and that a sizeable number of doctor’s offices and such have Fox News blaring in the waiting rooms. Sure, articles like this are low hanging fruit but it’s not just crazies being exposed to these falsehoods.

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      I like knowing what the people in crazy town are currently believing, certainly because I have to interact with some of those people on occasion. For my own sanity I am unable to directly consume their media, so I appreciate it if someone else is reporting on popular misinformation and conspiracy theories.