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12 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
1/ RE Tucker Carlson. So, I went through every single one of his ads for 2021 so far. Here's the thing: He has lost so many advertisers already that he doesn't really have any left to target.

His top paid advertiser is MyPillow and his 2nd biggest "paid" sponsor is Fox News.
2/ Yes. Tucker Carlson has lost so many advertisers that in addition to reducing the number of paid ads on the show due to not enough advertisers, Fox News is now buying up ads on Tucker's show...so many...that they're his second largest advertiser.
3/ If you want to have an effect, then what really needs to happen at this point is advertisers need to drop Fox News entirely.

Here are the biggest companies sponsoring Fox News (and by extension, Tucker) right now: @GSKUS, General Motors (@GM), @ProcterGamble and @KraftBrand
4/ Know this: In a few weeks, Fox News will be asking all of these advertisers to purchase ads...for next year...2022. At minimum, these companies should say we will not sponsor Fox News going forward. But yea, they should drop Fox Now.
5/ In addition to advertisers, which is an important aspect to all this, I would also strongly urge you to take some time to learn about how Fox News cheats the market in order to force all cable customers to subsidize their hate and deceit.

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1/ Don't forget: CPAC has 3 major sponsors

1) American Conservative Union.

2) Fox News.

3) Liberty Health Share.
2/ American Conservative Union.

ACU is the organization hosting the event. So...I mean it's not all that surprising that they are one of the 3 main sponsors. One would expect that.
3/ Fox News. Well, Fox News is a supposed "news channel." Sponsoring such an explicitly partisan event is not a thing a news operation does. But Fox isn't a news operation, it's a political operation masquerading as news.
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1/ All I keep thinking about in this moment are all the horrible things that Rush Limbaugh did and said. Just flashes of them.

Like how following Trayvon Martin's death, he tried to convince people it was okay to say "n word" now as long as you ended with an "a" (and said it).
2/ Or how, one of his "undeniable truths" was that "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of pop culture."
3/ Or how if a prominent woman would publicly defend another woman, he would refer to it as "solidarity of the vaginas."
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1/ Many years ago before my current role as president of Media Matters, I was @StopRush organizer. Getting sucked into that campaign was one of the things that kept me at @mmfa at the time. Here's my statement on Limbaugh's death....
2/ “Rush Limbaugh made his career lying to his audience, stoking misogyny, and fueling racism."
3/ "Limbaugh entertained listeners by mercilessly mocking and maligning anyone who didn’t resemble his typical listener — straight, white, conservative, and male — and that cruelty eventually became a central tenet of modern conservatism."
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1/ I'm seeing lots of discussion about/chronicling of implosion of QAnon. And, yea, I get it. Q people are bugging out.

But, much of analysis I'm seeing I think is missing something really significant and the most durable/lasting aspect of the Q conspiracy...
2/ The Q conspiracy had a few aspects: a) Q had secret info; b) that Trump has secret plan; c) that Democrats and media were pedophilic inter-dimensional demons and/or psychic vampires; d) that the global elite was conspiracy to run massive child sex rings for these dark forces.
3/ Yes, aspects of conspiracy that centered around Q or revolved around Trump's secret plan are unraveling for many -- and freak outs reflect that.

But keep in mind: the rest of the conspiracy has so deeply seeped in that it's almost taken as a given among this group, distinct.
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1/ So, I took a little respite tonight. Had some cookies, a couple glasses of prosecco. Gave some thought to this chapter of the Trump saga coming to close.

For me, this all started about 8 1/2 years ago...
2/ In 2012, I was wrapping up the project that originally brought me to Media Matters from law school - a campaign focused on Glenn Beck's advertisers and News Corp's phone hacking.

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1/ So here's what I'm struggling with. I think reasonable for Apple/Google to send letter and ultimately remove Parler from App Store due to lax enforcement and also potential risks.

But why didn't Facebook also get a letter demanding they address issues or risk removal?
2/ Facebook had much bigger role in creating conditions that led to as well as organizing for January 6 event.

We tracked people using FB to organize attendees to bring guns to the Jan 6 event. FB did nothing. mediamatters.org/facebook/users…
3/ So if it's about accountability for past violations as well as preventing future threats, while Parler is certainly a concern...the big problem is actually Facebook and Facebook's either unwillingness or inability to address disinfo and violence their platform facilitates.
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