Comment on They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation?

• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fox News is changing its content? To what?

  A better question is how much? to which the answer is _as little as possible. But after the settlement with Dominion for $787 million, Murdoch came in, fired Tucker Carlson and threatened everyone that if further misinformation suits cost him anywhere near that much again he’s going to start piranha-tanking talk-show hosts by the handful. (Proverbially, I assume.) So there is an internal effort to roll back guidelines regarding some of the more extreme rhetoric, especially when it involves misinformation that could lead to a successful lawsuit.

  Note that the Dominion suit isn’t the last lawsuit against FOX news regarding the election and the aftermath of January 6th.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They fired Tucker Carlson, but put Jesse Watters, who is just as racist and pushes just as many conspiracy theories in his place. What Tucker talked about was not why he was fired. It was what went on behind the scenes.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like they are just going to make sure they don’t slander anyone. Still a ton of room to push bullshit.

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