Fox News has relentlessly undermined the effort to get Americans vaccinated. Over two weeks, 57% of segments about coronavirus vaccines on the network included claims that undermined vaccination efforts.
Read the new study: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-h…
Read the new study: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-h…
Forty-five percent of Fox segments in this time period included claims suggesting that the vaccination drive is coercive or that it represents government overreach.
Thirty-seven percent of Fox segments in this time period included claims suggesting that vaccines are unnecessary or dangerous.
Fox & Friends aired the most vaccine segments during this period, with more than half (52%) featuring claims undermining or downplaying immunization.
All of Fox’s weekday evening opinion shows with vaccine segments -- Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle -- included claims undermining or downplaying coronavirus vaccines in those segments.
Fox personalities and guests made a total of 216 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines in segments about coronavirus immunization.
Pundits in vaccine segments made 151 claims undermining or downplaying vaccines, representing 70% of the total attacks on vaccination efforts. Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham made the most such claims with 22 and 18 statements, respectively.
Before this period, Fox boss Lachlan Murdoch made clear that he supported Tucker Carlson's gross misinformation about the vaccines. mediamatters.org/lachlan-murdoc…
-- even though his father was vaccinated before the Queen of England. theguardian.com/media/2020/dec…
-- even though his father was vaccinated before the Queen of England. theguardian.com/media/2020/dec…
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