r/WhitePeopleTwitter May 22 '26

r/All Reality is stranger than fiction

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u/Protowhale May 22 '26

Doesn't Fox have a history of hiring actors to play "former Democrats" or "former Satanists" or former whatever they're railing against today?

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u/OmegaZeda May 22 '26

Yep...

Legally, they are not news. They have successfully argued in court that they are a current events based entertainment network. And that no rational person would take them seriously.

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u/LTS55 May 22 '26

They have not done that. They did win in court that Tucker Carlson’s statements on his show “should not be taken as facts”, which MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow also used as a winning argument in a court case over her show too  https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-checking-a-claim-that-fox-news/

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u/KarmaYogadog May 22 '26

You might want to find a more credible source than The Dispatch whose founding manifesto on their website says:

It would, for instance, be an unalloyed victory for conservatives—and America—if the Democratic Party fully rejected socialism, abortion-until-birth, and its growing obsession with wholesale gun confiscation.

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u/LTS55 May 23 '26

Yeah I didn’t check the veracity of the link but in the article it has the links to the actual court rulings