Fox News did not get away with lying to their viewers as they tried to push a Right Wing agenda indirectly. Their fake news was caught by the alternative media and exposed widely.
Fox News apologized for broadcasting fake news
Abby Huntsman apologized for delivering fake news on-air Friday after sharing a story about food stamp fraud that had no basis in fact.
According to the Washington Post, the Agriculture Department asked Fox News to correct their lying report.
According to the USDA, that’s false. “We are not quite sure where this came from,” a USDA spokesperson tells the Erik Wemple Blog. “We saw that there was as story on Breitbart. We have not issued a report on this recently. There is no new rate that we’ve published. So we’re not quite sure why they’re so interested in stirring this up.” The program in question is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which assists millions “eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities.”
Well, Fox News did the right thing for a change. They gave a 30-second apology.
“We reported that back in 2016, $70 million dollars were wasted on food stamp fraud. That was actually incorrect,” weekend co-host Abby Huntsman said in an update to the Fox News false report. “The latest information from 2009 to 2011 shows the fraud at 1.3 percent, which is approximately $853 million dollars for each of those three years, and nationally food stamp trafficking is on the decline, so sorry about that.”
More so than ever we must remain vigilant in the Trump age. It is the only way we will prevent the further decimation of the poor and the middle-class. After all, they’ve both fooled enough Americans to make Trump the president. We must watch both the Trump administration and the mainstream media which are both wards of the plutocracy.