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[–]knob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No - she didn't spread misinformation. She offered excellent reports.

'Disinformation and misinformation propaganda puppet' is literally Carlson's job description. No one knows what he actually believes, as he's 24/7 misinformation talking points for the right. Fox has done more damage to the US than most other corporations. Pesticides might rank that high.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Like that one time she said 'the vaccine literally stops transmission of the virus'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/social-media-users-demand-apology-msnbc-rachel-maddow-vaccines

Oh heres some more from politifact

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=&ruling=false&speaker=rachel-maddow

[–]knob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good reference - though if I may: Fox news naturally wanted to attack Maddow for anything, including semantics. If she mistakenly overemphasized the effectiveness of the vaccine because she or her writers forgot to insert 'reduces' before 'transmission', then she's made a very common mistake that anyone can make. There isn't much of a difference betwen the two claims - to reduce or to stop transmission - but of course Fox works for the .01% assholes who wanted the virus to spread, so they had to do their jobs and attack this one mistake, claiming OUTRAGE and wanting an APOLOGY. Absolutely this is evidence of the over-the-top fuckery Fox did on a regular basis, pushing that big corp and .01% agenda. If she made one minor mistake in her several decades career, Fox is responsible for daily lies to the public for 40 years, promoting the lies of the GOP non-stop. Trump also copied Fox verbatim, as did Sinclair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc. The number of lies Trump told numbered in the 10s of thousands, and were copy-pasta Fox talking, piped-in from the NY office (DC to NY to LA to DC). Seriously, we've been seriously fucked over in the US by Fox and the GOP, regardless of one's political opinions (I agree with the GOP on a number of issues, but their lies should catch up to them at some point. Lies aren't forgivable, and allow numerous corporate and wealthy abuses. Consider for example why we're not taxing the rich like we used to. Dems joined the GOP on that front.) mkay?