MoveOn Slams Advertisers Sticking with Fox News After Outrageous Segment Asserting Canadian Wildfire Smoke Causes No Adverse Health Issues and Denying Impact of Climate Change

Washington, D.C. – Today, MoveOn released a new video as part of its Stop Funding Fox campaign to spotlight consumer brands that are still inexplicably advertising on Fox News, despite the network’s track record of promoting lies and propaganda. The group debuted another “Bought and Paid For” video highlighting a segment on Fox News from June 7 where host Laura Ingraham egged a guest on to promote rampant falsehoods and deny the health emergencies resulting from the air pollution caused by the Canadian wildfires.  On last night’s “The Ingraham Angle,”…

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MoveOn Members Call on Advertisers Like General Motors, AT&T and Subway to Stop Funding Fox News

MoveOn activists across the country are demanding that corporations including Subway, AT&T, General Motors, and Comcast stop funding Fox News, in efforts to hold the network accountable for dividing Americans and spreading disinformation, bias, lies, and hate. Cable companies and advertisers provide two major revenue streams for Fox News, thus enabling the lies they spread. The most effective way MoveOn members can hold Fox News accountable is to demand that these companies “cut the cord” and stop funding the channel through any new advertising or potential increased cable fees.  …

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Fox News Settlement Won’t Deter Efforts to Call Out Their Lies and Their Advertisers

MoveOn launches Stop Funding Fox website to expose cable providers and Fox advertisers like Comcast and AT&T “The news of this settlement changes nothing about the endless stream of dangerous lies that saturates Fox News’ airwaves. A nine-figure settlement may protect Fox News executives from the judgment of a jury, but the findings surrounding this case have exposed Fox News and forever branded them as right-wing MAGA propaganda. “Our work to call out their lies and those who enable those lies continues. That’s why we launched our Stop Funding Fox website.…

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