Fox Faces FCC License Threat Over False Election Claims & Jan. 6 Attack

Odusei@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 46 points – Fox Faces FCC License Threat Over False Election Claims & Jan. 6 Attack
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Fox may have forked over $787 million to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims, but the Rupert Murdoch-owned company is far from free of the fallout.

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a petition has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission to deny the broadcast license renewal of Fox Corp-owned Philadelphia TV station FOX 29 over its parent company’s “misdeeds.” Led in part by former Fox Broadcasting Company executive Preston Padden, the petition from The Media and Democracy Project cites the bracing revelations out of the Dominion case and Fox News’ trumpeting of Trump’s Stop the Steal efforts as perpetuating “false news about the 2020 election.”

Just wanted to highlight this bit for proper specificity, the title reads like it's for all of Fox.

That sounds like a nonsense petition. Fox is very hands-off when it comes to network affiliate stations. (I worked for one and am no fan of Fox News.) They do broadcast the occasional Fox News package, but I would be very surprised if Paducah Fox News at 10 or whatever was talking about the election being stolen in between talking about the city council meeting and the ice cream eating squirrel.