# A closer look at the Fox FAUX News Network's mission to destroy American Democracy **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics and Social Issues\ **Created:** [April 2, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-closer-look-at-the-fox-faux-news-networks-mission-to-destroy-american-democracy/11426 "2025-04-02T17:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/a-closer-look-at-the-fox-faux-news-networks-mission-to-destroy-american-democracy/11426/1 "2025-04-02T17:17:21Z")
Any thing I write will be written off as rant, so I’ll spare my contempt for their mission to destroy American Democracy and simply share some information and background. [How Fox and Murdoch are destroying US democracy](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/60928/how-fox-and-murdoch-are-destroying-us-democracy) and to once again make it **[safe for the Robber Barons](https://www.google.com/search?q=Robber+Barons&client=safari&sca_esv=5d14021b5f0ff6fa&rls=en&sxsrf=AHTn8zoT0ak3Hiju8AXDcAuumrO0p-olwQ%3A1743613059735&ei=g2ztZ_vSLLXz0PEPxLbJ6QM&ved=0ahUKEwi7oLTo6LmMAxW1OTQIHURbMj0Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=Robber+Barons&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiDVJvYmJlciBCYXJvbnMyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigUyDRAAGIAEGLADGEMYigVI2SBQrgJY2QtwAngBkAEAmAGmAaAB4wOqAQMwLjO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgSgAuUCwgIHECMYsQIYJ8ICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgIHEAAYgAQYCpgDAOIDBRIBMSBAiAYBkAYMkgcDMi4yoAfBJrIHAzAuMrgH2AI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp)** > **[How Rupert Murdoch helped create a monster – the era of Trumpism – and then...](https://theconversation.com/how-rupert-murdoch-helped-create-a-monster-the-era-of-trumpism-and-then-lost-control-of-it-235640)** > > Today’s Republican Party is a very different beast from the one Murdoch exercised so much influence over in recent decades. Does the media mogul harbour any regrets? > … Murdoch’s first monster is the Fox News audience, which after long cultivation into the Fox News fantasy land, refuses to believe any news that does not fit its prejudices. Fox, as a result, feels compelled to reinforce its delusions rather than report accurately. > > Murdoch’s second monster grew out of the first – a Donald Trump-dominated Republican Party. Murdoch wanted to make Trump a “[non-person](https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/28/23617987/fox-news-rupert-murdoch-dominion-trump-election-fraud)”, but the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month showed Trump now dominates the party like no one else in living memory. … > **[The Damage Fox News Has Done To Our Democracy - Democracy 21](https://democracy21.org/news/freds-weekly-note/the-damage-fox-news-has-done-to-our-democracy)** > > Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 20, 2023 After former President Donald Trump, Fox News apparently did more than anyone else to promote and spread the false claim and accompanying lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen... > … After former President Donald Trump, _Fox News_ apparently did more than anyone else to promote and spread the false claim and accompanying lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. > > In doing so\*, Fox\* made a dangerous contribution to undermining the confidence of millions of Americans in the honesty and integrity of our elections and to greatly damaging our democracy. > > The Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against _Fox_ for knowingly broadcasting lies about Dominion was settled this week with _Fox_ agreeing to pay a historic [$787.5 million](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/fox-news-reaches-settlement-with-dominion-in-defamation-lawsuit-00092621). > > **But, left out of the settlement was any requirement that _Fox_ inform its audience about what it had done in spreading false information and lies about the 2020 presidential race.** _Fox_ ultimately had some of its anchors [read a brief three-sentence statement](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/19/fox-news-coverage-dominion-lawsuit/) on Tuesday acknowledging that the court had determined “certain claims about Dominion to be false.” > > We can expect that _Fox_ will make no real effort to correct the enormous damage it has done to our country. … **Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note Prospect magazine | April 20, 2023** > **[How Fox and Murdoch are destroying US democracy](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/60928/how-fox-and-murdoch-are-destroying-us-democracy)** > > After the 2020 election, Fox News gave airtime to an outright fiction: that > Biden had stolen the presidency. As the company is sued over what it broad... > April 5, 2023, By [Matthew d’Ancona](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/883/matthew-d-ancona) > > Television is not a gimmick, and, if you think it is, you’ll lose again.” So said Roger Ailes—the 27-year-old executive producer of the syndicated Mike Douglas Show—to Richard Nixon in the autumn of 1967. While waiting to be interviewed by Douglas, Nixon had been grumbling about the triviality of the medium. > > So struck was the Republican presidential contender by the young man’s audacity that he hired Ailes as his television strategist more or less on the spot. The next year, eight years after his defeat by John F Kennedy, Nixon went on to win the GOP nomination and the presidency. > > Ailes, for his part, continued to be a hugely influential adviser in Republican politics and subsequently a force to be reckoned with in the television business. In 1996, believing there was a conservative audience just waiting to be served by a cable channel in tune with their instincts and beliefs, he and Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News. It fast became the market leader, a political phenomenon and a cultural juggernaut. … > **[Fox News controversies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies)** > > Fox News is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Fox Corporation. Since its creation by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1996, the channel has been the subject of several controversies and allegations. > Fox News has been described by academics, media figures, political figures, and watchdog groups as being biased in favor of the Republican Party in its news coverage, as perpetuating conservative bias, and as misleading their audiences in relation to science, not...