Donald Trump’s favorite propaganda network peddles dangerous conspiracy theories and COVID misinformation, LGBTQ hate, election lies, and white supremacy. Fox News, right? Actually, it’s One America News Network — which is so far-right that it makes Fox News look like Bernie Sanders — and the largest telecommunications company in the world has been behind it. A stunning new report by Reuters found that this certain Big Telecom company “has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue.”
Can you guess which company — with a long and troubling history of funding right-wing causes — it could be? You guessed it: AT&T.
Earlier this month, Reuters released its first of two special reports that found “ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.” Quoting from a deposition the outlet obtained, OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring testified that AT&T executives “told us they wanted a conservative network…They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”
Read the blog HERE and the articles HERE.