"Fox and Newsmax, both delivered to my home by your company, are complicit," NJ state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty texted a Comcast executive on Thursday. "You feed this garbage, lies and all," Moriarty added to the executive, according to a screen grab of the texts he provided me. But what about TV companies that provide platforms to networks such as Newsmax, One America News -- and, yes, Fox News? After Wednesday's incident of domestic terrorism on Capitol Hill, it is time TV carriers face questions for lending their platforms to dishonest companies that profit off of disinformation and conspiracy theories. After all, it was the very lies that Fox, Newsmax, and OAN spread that helped prime President Trump's supporters into not believing the truth: that he lost an honest and fair election.

Source: CNN January 08, 2021 05:48 UTC