• DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    If FOX really cared about money, they wouldn’t have folded so easily w/ Dominion.

    The Dominion settlement cost them a fortune, and they folded because they didn’t have a case. The evidence against them was devastating.

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      11 months ago

      Yes, but their viewers weren’t told that and don’t care to hear it. Fox is a pure propaganda outfit, and whatever the “both sides” morons say, there’s no equivalent to it on the left. The settlement they reached was just the price of successfully boosting the propaganda Trump demanded from them.

      They’ll do it again as often as they have to.

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        11 months ago

        If I recall correctly, it wiped out most of their profits for that year, it’s not something they can do again and again as often as they have to. Fox News is a public company and it’s illegal not to act in the fiduciary interests of the shareholders, that would open them up to more lawsuits.

        It was a big enough deal that they fired their most popular right-wing mouthpiece, which seems to be pretty clear evidence that they care more about the almighty dollar. They will continue spreading Republican propaganda and the worst way that’s legal instead.

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          11 months ago

          Fox News is a public company and it’s illegal not to act in the fiduciary interests of the shareholders, that would open them up to more lawsuits.

          FYI, the shareholder lawsuits just got started in September.