Saturday, March 3, 2018

Fox triggers its own audience with misleading viral video


A recent Fox News video showed just how easy it is to spin the wheels on whatever apparatus it is that turns the outrage machine. Tucker Carlson last week aired a segment deriding “the liberal effort” to ban the word “man” on college campuses. In just under a week, it’s been shared over 486,000 times and viewed by more than 42 million people. The outrage was real. The subject matter? Not so much. Carlson didn’t lie, per se, but things got interesting when the network stripped the bit of context and slapped it on social media with the headline: Liberals…

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