Accountability
Former marketing executives launch campaign to keep Fox News from ‘fueling next insurrection’
A company called Check My Ads have launched a campaign to restrict ad revenue for Fox News. Their aim is to prevent Fox News from “working overtime to fuel the next insurrection.” The Guardian reported that Check My Ads has garnered 40,000 signatures in the first 5 days.
“Foxnews.com benefits enormously from being a part of the global advertising society. Foxnews.com receives ads from blue chip brands, which gives incredible legitimacy to the lies that they are publishing. That brand equity is intrinsically valuable,” says Claire Atkin, a team member of Check My Ads.
“Advertisers have been crystal clear that they do not want to sponsor violence. And we all saw what happened on January 6. It’s not just violence, this was the attempted overthrow of the government. This is world-scale political violence,” Atkin said. “We are opening the conversation up for everyone who wants to say enough is enough.”
Whilst some companies already stopped advertising on Fox News, ads for companies such as Walgreens do appear on their broadcast.
“When Fox is plugged into that ads supply chain, it gives them the legitimacy of a real news outlet, when in fact they are publishing disinformation regularly that leads to real-world violence.”
According to Media Matters for America, Fox News have raised doubts about the 2020 election results on 774 occasions. Media Matters went onto say that the January 6th insurrection may even have been orchestrated by the government.
That’s why, Atkin said, Check My Ads is determined to trim the network’s wings. “Advertisers have been crystal clear that they do not want to sponsor violence. And we all saw what happened on January 6th. It’s not just violence, this was the attempted overthrow of the government. This is world-scale political violence,” Atkin said.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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The “Left” does not like Fox News since they are reporting facts and giving fact based opinions. Fox is not the promoting violence – they do report on the actual violence of the “Left” that the “Left” propagandist pretend is not violence related. And I suspect they will go after OANN and other sites that are reporting what is really going on. After all, the “Left” does not like inconvenient facts, especially when they undermine the “Left”‘s agenda.