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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

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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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AT&T, Subway, and GM Should Disavow “Unhinged” Fox News Chyron and Stop Funding Extremist Propaganda

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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 latest “Bought and Paid For” video highlights a segment on Fox News from June 12 where Fox News broadcast a bottom-of-the-screen chyron that accused President Joe Biden of being a “wannabe dictator who arrested his political rival.” This segment ran the same day as Donald Trump was indicted in Florida…

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

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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

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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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Fox News Refuses to Run MoveOn Ad About Fox News

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Washington, D.C. – Fox News has refused to run MoveOn’s ad “Lied to You,” which quotes recently released emails and text messages from Fox News executives and hosts showing they intentionally presented false allegations about election fraud, during reporting on the 2020 presidential election results, to keep ratings and profits up. The ad references the private negative reactions of Fox News stars and execs to the conspiracy theories spouted by Trump allies in their attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and undermine democracy, though they ultimately chose…

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After Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Lies Last Night, WSJ Refuses to Run MoveOn Ad About Fox News’ Election Lies

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Washington, D.C. – This morning, The Wall Street Journal refused to run a print ad (see below) from MoveOn calling on Rupert Murdoch to stop Fox News’s lies and noting its censoring of MoveOn’s ad “Lied to You.” The WSJ’s censorship follows Fox News’s refusal last week to run MoveOn’s broadcast ad. That ad quotes recently released emails and text messages from Fox News executives and hosts showing they intentionally presented false allegations about election fraud during reporting on the 2020 presidential election results in order to keep ratings and…

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